Good grief, I’m writing YA!
Yesterday in the shower, it was plain as day that my high fantasy WIP has to be YA. The main character is, after all, 17, so what was I thinking? This has some benefits:
- YA is 75,000 words, unlike the typical 110K or so for standard fantasy. I’ve been just over 60K the whole length of this process, so I can maybe actually write a novel in a salable size.
- This makes a great way for me to approach the mother-daughter tension in the book which I’ve been struggling with, since it seemed to come out of nowhere. Positioning as YA makes me consider a different audience, and breaking up with mom is right in there with teen angst.
There are some bad sides:
- As you know, I know nothing about fantasy. Turns out I know FAR LESS about YA. sigh…
The next novel I’m writing may not be an historical romance, or I may go for broke and do 2 at the same time. For now, I’m wiped out and need to get to my 5 minutes of editing…