Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Friday, October 12, 2012
Adventure VS Drama, Stepping to the Stake
Another blog sparked by a discussion with the Bosun…
I’m not a fan of YA and how it has been so incredibly
embraced by adult readers.
*ducking thrown bottles, daggers and refuse
Hear me out! I know I’m dancing the dagger’s edge of heresy
with saying this, but really! I’m gonna leap into the precipice and invite some
Friday controversy…
YA is a mediocre way for adults to indulge in fantasy
without actually reading the BIG books.
Yeah, I know most of the YA stuff is big as far as word
count is concerned. And they deal with big issues and growing up is the biggest
issue of all and…
But…I can’t see it. I just can’t.
Maybe I’m a snob. It happens…we all have the lines we draw
in the sand. For some it’s Michael Keaton playing Batman, or Fonzie jumping
over a shark on Happy Days. For me, it’s the rush to embrace the YA stuff.
I mean, I’ve written some younger characters, not just my
beloved active silvertons. The Pirate
Circus has two kids in it! One a real kid and one a young adult who faces a
massive change by the end of the book. So, I’m not a coward when it comes to writing
kids. In my neverending pirate series, I have several younger characters…
But honestly, people! With so many fabulous books of
adventure and growth out there, why only read the burgeoning adulthood ones? I
don’t get it… I remember that time of my life without a whole lot of
excitement. Hormones, social pressures, body issues… Nothing I don’t deal with
right now! But it was all full of so much drama then…as YA is now.
Something that comes with age, perhaps, is the refusal to
indulge in drama. The challenges thrown at us might be exciting, they might be
exhausting or exhilarating…but full of drama? Not so much. I’m glad to leave
drama behind…
So why would I want to read it in a YA book? Give me
escapism and a chance to be an adult hero in my imagination… The thought of
stepping into the head of a YA girl, even if she does have a real cool bow in
her hand, is… *shudder!
Drama…eck! Adventure? Bring it on!
I’m ready, throw the
rocks…I am likely a YA snob. But indulge me…do I have a point? Is there a
difference between drama and adventure in your mind? What book titles come to
mind if you consider the difference? Or movies?
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