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at this whole tweet, but the idea that SFF *in particular* doesn’t need to be YA is just, like... what??https://twitter.com/hannahnpbowman/status/1134534824310390784 …
It’s a point of pragmatism, certainly. But I’ll confess it’s the type of pragmatism I personally cringe at when expressed in those terms. It gives me war flashbacks to my most hated high school English teacher, almost solely because of whom I didn’t do English at uni.
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I think this is the line agents have to walk (between pragmatism and finding the true vision of the book)! And I trust that authors who don’t find my advice helpful will ignore it. So definitely don’t feel that you have to agree with me about any of this!
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I don’t feel I have to agree, and I do appreciate the conversation. But my last agency experience did not end well, I’m struggling to get myself back in the game, and if I was personally advised right now to change so I’m an easier pitch, honestly it’d make me want to give up.
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She had a way of making me feel deindivduated from my own writing: like I wasn’t a person writing for myself, but rather to get better grades so that *she* could get more kudos. How dare I write for myself foremost, and not for her ease?
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I’m sorry that happened to you!
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