tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443901803553575238.post3492006387106648746..comments2023-11-29T13:22:43.292-07:00Comments on The Underground: "Is This Okay...?"K. H. Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04290298922405434762noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443901803553575238.post-68274909321775256272011-05-31T10:52:24.510-06:002011-05-31T10:52:24.510-06:00@Elanor It's perfectly fine if you don't w...@Elanor It's perfectly fine if you don't want to read about that stuff, and I know that many teens out there don't want to either. I'm not saying that a YA book has to be any edgier than a MG book. One of my favorite books is Anna and the French Kiss, and its content is no heavier than any MG book. What I want to say is don't feel limited because you're writing YA and don't assume because your audience are teens that if you choose to go in a darker direction, that it's somehow taboo. Like I said at the end there, write your story, and if its better without sex, drugs and rock and roll, then that's perfectly all right, so long as you stay true to your story.K. H. Carsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04290298922405434762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443901803553575238.post-30886881756422737822011-05-31T10:31:41.144-06:002011-05-31T10:31:41.144-06:00I kind of agree, and I kind of don't. Basicall...I kind of agree, and I kind of don't. Basically, you're perfectly right when you say that YA are smart enough and mature enough to handle a few bad words. However, a lot of people (myself included) don't want to read that stuff. I want to read a 'clean romance' and I have no interest in reading about people who do drugs and have sex with a different person every night. Honestly, I think glorifying that stuff in a book, whether it's YA or adult, is wrong, period. It's not that YA aren't mature enough to handle PG-13 content, it's just that a lot of them don't want to read that kind of stuff.Elanor Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00936078326828012174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443901803553575238.post-47888740305858614992011-05-31T07:58:11.288-06:002011-05-31T07:58:11.288-06:00This is a fantabulously-amazing-ridiculously accur...This is a fantabulously-amazing-ridiculously accurate and awesome post. Thank you. I feel the exact same way.Cheyannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05924234364835409650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3443901803553575238.post-1598159872115417712011-05-31T07:56:40.107-06:002011-05-31T07:56:40.107-06:00SO TRUE. this constant question drives me CRAZY. I...SO TRUE. this constant question drives me CRAZY. I feel like most people who ask it have only read things like the "classic" YA (most of which isn't really YA, it's middle-grade), ala Madeleine L'Engle, and don't really understand what YA is.<br />I want to tell some of them to just go write MG. MG needs more love anyway <.<Ellenhttp://wordlarceny.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com