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Title: Writing And Selling The Young Adult Novel
ISBN: 1582975159
Author:
K L Going
Publicate Date: 2008-04-04
Publish: 2008-04-04
List Price: $14.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: helpful for teens and adults
I found this book to be very helpful and I think it will be useful for teens who want to write for other teens and for adults who want to write YA novels. There is a lot of information in here and its easy to find what your looking for. Plus it was not boring like so many how-to books. I know an adult who read this too and she liked it also.
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2: Good how-to writing book for YA writers!
I think this is an excellent resource if you are a YA writer or thinking about writing YA. There are not many current YA writing books out there and the ones that do exist were too basic and generalized for me. The thing I took away the most from this book was the teen Q&A sections. They were so relevant that I ended up changing a major part of my YA WIP. I would have liked even more of these sections.
Some of the information in the book was basic (for example, instead of spending a lot of time on POV and other beginning writing topics, I would have liked to have known more about YA itself or seen more examples from YA novels). I also didn't care for the way the sections were broken down by school subjects (too gimmicky).
But it is very rare that I read a how-to writing book from cover to cover, and I did so with this book. Overall I really enjoyed it. (Way more so than The Idiot's Guide to Writing for Young Adults).
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3: Useful, but nothing special
K.L Going's book is definitely useful--it sheds some light on the YA audience and industry, and acknowledges the pain and terror of writing. The book provides basic writing advice without getting bogged down with every element known to literature or writing.
Two complaints: First, throughout the book Going continually relies on "the Oxford English Dictionary defines 'theme' as....," or whatever the Important Word is. Constantly. Isn't that, umm, pretty rotten writing? Just thought a book about writing was sort of a bad place to use such cheap tricks.
Second, Going uses an obnoxiously labored metaphor of a school day to illustrate writing a book. It doesn't work, it's juvenile (our audience, perhaps, but not Going's), and adds absolutely nothing to the informative value of the book. It's just a gimick.
That said, not much is lost by these two mistakes. The book is still worth buying.
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4: Writing & Selling the YA Novel
Lots of excellent advice and examples specific to the YA genre, especially POV. A worthy purchase.
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5: A Fun Read with Great Tips!
I found this book very useful. I did not at all feel like the author was writing down to me. In fact I found the way she presented her information to be playful and fun. I ended up checking out the novels she's written and was pleased to find the same level of writing in her YA novels. She seems to have a strong following with young readers and since industry critics have recognized her as a great writer, I feel the lessons I learned from her "how to book" will, help me greatly.
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