Saturday, November 2, 2013

NaNo: Day One

Like last year, and both camps, I'll try to limit these posts once a week. (Reading about NaNo is like listening to someone retell their dreams -- it's only interesting to the dreamer/writer.) I'm on schedule (about 1700 words per day), but I'm cheating this year and wrote some ahead of time. I have part of a skeleton draft that I'm fleshing out, a new MC, and a slightly new direction which makes it, if not a new story, a least a fresh take on a failed one. My issue is one I continue to have: where does the line between YA and not-YA end? I have a young(ish) MC with a voice that's decidedly young (after scrapping my more "writerly" one), and a few scenes too adult for a young crowd. I think what I'm doing is writing the stories I wish existed when I was a teen.

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