Showing posts with label genres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genres. Show all posts
Friday, June 14, 2013
I Have An Idea
I think it’s time for a new genre. Now that New Adult has
hit the big time, hence acknowledging the existence of a group of people known
as out-of-their-teens, and there is Boomer Lit, acknowledging people born from
1946 -1964 still have a life… I want to propose a new group.
Now, I am an advocate of Boomer Lit. Well, I’m advocate of
Boomer fiction. I’m not sure about the ‘lit’ part of the new genre. Sounds a
bit too highfalutin for me. So…since we have New Adult, and Young Adult…how
about Old Adult.
Young Adult celebrates the changes from childhood to teenage
angst. The era of puberty.
New Adult celebrates the social acceptance of teenagers and
twenty somethings being adult enough to have sex, which puberty made fun.
(Hopefully.) And romance, of course.
Old Adult would be a celebration of the second round of
puberty, known as menopause. (And men have it, you know they do. They just
don’t have it to the extent women have it. Men get to call theirs a Mid-Life
Crisis and buy fast cars. While women are pouring pitchers of ice water down
the front of their shirts.) (Life isn’t fair.)
So OA could deal with the challenges presented by this
special time of growth and appreciation. A real hero who is courting in an OA
novel, would need to be strong, with a sense of humor, a truck load of patience
and a heart the size of Alaska. (Texas isn’t big enough.) (Ha!)
The heroine would have more emotional upheaval than an
entire high school, body issues that would look at the average teenage girl’s
insecurity and laugh until hysterical, and with a need for real romance and
massive orgasms.
Honestly, a field ripe for writers!
Am I right?
Okay, I admit the name sucks donkey balls. But I’m floundering
a bit on what to call this genre. Used Adult? Experienced Adult? Adult Adult?
Active Adult? (That sorta sounds like a Depends commercial.)
Put on your Friday
drinking hats and do some thinking…what would you call it?
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