which of these sounds the most promising? - Page 2 - Writers Forum

chaos · 09-04-2005, 06:27 PM

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thanks for the replies...I believe I'll go with the fourth choice, since it has the most personal relevance, which will make it that much harder and that much easier, i guess. And I don't like writing for younger kids very well.

And by the way, I am totally making my unicorn a stockbroker now

whenever i get around to writing that one. it's so much more interesting than making her a minion of evil.

So now stockbrokers and other capitalists that try to hit it big are evil? I hope you never make a penny. Have a nice day.

Oh, I have nothing against capitalists or stockbrokers. Apparently you don't realize how materialistic I am...

Anarkos · 09-04-2005, 09:02 PM

Ilyak, shut up. Stop trying to pick fights.

Chaos - Good luck with your ideas. My only real concern is that I wonder if any publisher would touch a book with such sexual content if it was aimed at 'young adults'. Be very careful with semi-autographic writing also; it can dredge up nasty things, and you can also become all too easily sucked into your own autobiography and thus divert from your planned plot or miss out essential details you know but your reader does not.

chaos · 09-04-2005, 09:52 PM

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4) You're a pedophile? Holy shit. Thanks for sharing that with us, let's call the cops now on ya, shall we? Anyway, I am just not liking this one at all...

noooo....i'm the girl, not the pedophile.

and as for the first two, realize that they are aimed at young children, like, 10 year olds, so obviously the plot isn't quite as complex as it would be for a older audience. and you're basically right about the third, it doesn't have much of a plot, so i'd have to do something about that...
anyway, thanks for the opinion...i think....

chaos · 09-04-2005, 09:55 PM

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Chaos - Good luck with your ideas. My only real concern is that I wonder if any publisher would touch a book with such sexual content if it was aimed at 'young adults'. Be very careful with semi-autographic writing also; it can dredge up nasty things, and you can also become all too easily sucked into your own autobiography and thus divert from your planned plot or miss out essential details you know but your reader does not.

thanks, that was my concern with the third book as well, that and its lack of a good plot...

and yes it'll be difficult doing the fourth because a lot of the experiences i had were highly wierd but don't really lend themselves well to a linear type of plot, so i would have to fictionalize it somewhat...and again, the pedophile part might put some editors off it for the YA market, although I did actually know such a person and it's a rather important part of the story.