And for once I'm not in panic mode. I am, however, changing pretty much everything including the POV. I started with one character who, no matter what I did. read a little too closely to the "manic pixie" trope, so I started writing from his POV, figuring I'd use none of it, but I'd see where I wanted to take this person. What happened was he ended up being more interesting and dynamic than my original MC, who've I'll all but vanished into the cornfield. So I'm writing an entirely new story, I guess.
A bigger issue, and it's one that crops up with nearly everything I write these days, is that my story falls in that gray area of YA, but not YA. When I was a teenager, there really wasn't a market for YA lit that wasn't part of a series (hi Sweet Valley, which I wouldn't be caught dead reading after seventh grade), so I really wouldn't have appreciated books written for teens that weren't so teen.
Speaking of smart writing for teens, I just finished David Levithan's Two Boys Kissing, and it was wonderful (if a bit treacly in spots). I'll try to have a longer review sometime this week.
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