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  • Bethania Gauterius replied to the topic Why Do You Love YA? in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 8 months ago

    @imwritehere1920

    I honestly hadn’t thought too hard about this question before and I still don’t have a good answer other than “I’m a young adult myself and so I just find it easiest to write for my own age group”. I guess not everything I’ve written would be considered YA–but I don’t know if it would be considered adult either. Most of my protagonists are somewhere in their teens. As I get older, perhaps my protagonists will get older as well.

    Most of the stuff I read is YA, MG, or classics. I shelve books at my library and cringe every time I have to do the adult fiction section. It’s horrendous. So maybe I’ll try to fix that problem one day by writing adult fic. But at the moment, I don’t think I have the maturity to write for that audience. Nor do I really have any ideas for adult fiction stories. I guess that proves I’m not ready to write that yet–I don’t really have any adulthood experience to draw from.

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