[ SECRET POST #2732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've been reading a lot of YA books this year, and most of them were trash, fanfic tier. Unfortunately, published fiction =/= good literature.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been reading a lot of YA books this year

Your first mistake... Heck, there does exist quality YA stuff, you just have to look for it.

[(Anonymous)]

If you think the problem is that it's YA, go review Sturgeon's Law.

[(Anonymous)]

if you limit yourself to one genre, according to Sturgeon's Law you will mostly encounter trash.

[ex_mek82]

This.

Just because something is an original/non-fandom based story, doesn't automatically mean it's going to be the best and most perfect thing since sliced bread and can openers. Same goes for fic (or tie-in/expanded universe material, which I lovingly call 'professional fan fic') involving characters/concepts/places we're familiar with.

tl;dr: Sturgeon's Law is in full effect going both ways.

[hands4healing]

This, so much. And I can see how published writing has declined in quality in the past ten years. I'm reading a novel from the 90s, and there's description! I always know who's speaking! The paragraphs are more than two to five lines long! There's a sense of place for each scene!

But what editors want, as I'm seeing, is a bare-bones story with no description and really short paragraphs.

Bah, I say.