I mean, the story of Persephone is about her fading in and out of the living world, so I can absolutely see her as a figure threading her way in and out of history,
And you are even now giving me ideas! Thanks, I'm glad the idea works for you.
t would work wonderfully in a (very) vaguely Orlando-ish way about history and Womanhood
Again, glad you think so. I hadn't thought about Orlando in connection with it, but yes, that's what I'm going for.
Re: YA. The main reason I resent that term for the reason you state about the exciting stuff happening in the name of YA. I feel like this is where all the stories went. There is some very good adult contemporary literature. But most of it is schlock. Even the stuff that's supposed to be all meaningful rarely has stories I can get into with characters I really care about. I feel that even though a bunch of YA is outrageously cracktastic at least the stories are really innovative and new.
When I was a young adult I was not even aware of the term young adult. I was aware of a genre of books that was about people in high school and their melodramas and problems and I was not interested. What I wanted was YA fantasy and sci fi, and the only YA fantasy I knew of was Lloyd Alexander, and I wanted less epic and more fairytale-ish in those days, anyway. (Well, I still want more fairytale, but epic is okay. Or Romance, selden :o)
But I feel like the genre of YA fantasy has really exploded since Harry Potter, and I also feel like YA fantasy is not a sub-genre of YA now' it's just . . . there. Most of YA seems to be fantasy these days, when I look at the bookshelves . . . I guess that was Twilight. But I'm seeing a lot less of the highschool-drama type stories. I mean, they're ALL highschool dramas, but they're hs dramas with high adventure and magic or time travel or some kind of supernatural/fantastic element.
But one thing that's cool with what's happening with YA, from what I can see (not knowing much about it) is that fantasy isn't this separate, no-good thing that gets shunted to a corner, as in contemporary lit (unless it's popular. Seriously, we're not going to put The Road in the sci-fi section because it's well-written and a best seller. WTF? And those whom you try to let know that it IS sci-fi and the speculative aspect is all sci fi is think you're crazy and that you need to get back to your space ships). Is this happening YA because YA shelves are just smaller? Or there's just more YA fantasy being written?
Which reminds me, there needs to be more YA sci fi. I've been meaning to write THE NEW GREAT YA SCI FI, but . . . things like Avatar happen to me and then I can't think straight.
But yeah. I do know what YA means. Kind of.
I adore all your writing. You'd make me jealous, except you are so completely removed from what I am able to do that I just kind of drool a lot. I have to read your stuff slow though because it makes my noggin go into hyper-drive with cross-connections and THOUGHTS. I sent my housemate, who is awesome, a link to your Little Mermaid poem. She liked it a lot.
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And you are even now giving me ideas! Thanks, I'm glad the idea works for you.
t would work wonderfully in a (very) vaguely Orlando-ish way about history and Womanhood
Again, glad you think so. I hadn't thought about Orlando in connection with it, but yes, that's what I'm going for.
Re: YA. The main reason I resent that term for the reason you state about the exciting stuff happening in the name of YA. I feel like this is where all the stories went. There is some very good adult contemporary literature. But most of it is schlock. Even the stuff that's supposed to be all meaningful rarely has stories I can get into with characters I really care about. I feel that even though a bunch of YA is outrageously cracktastic at least the stories are really innovative and new.
When I was a young adult I was not even aware of the term young adult. I was aware of a genre of books that was about people in high school and their melodramas and problems and I was not interested. What I wanted was YA fantasy and sci fi, and the only YA fantasy I knew of was Lloyd Alexander, and I wanted less epic and more fairytale-ish in those days, anyway. (Well, I still want more fairytale, but epic is okay. Or Romance, selden :o)
But I feel like the genre of YA fantasy has really exploded since Harry Potter, and I also feel like YA fantasy is not a sub-genre of YA now' it's just . . . there. Most of YA seems to be fantasy these days, when I look at the bookshelves . . . I guess that was Twilight. But I'm seeing a lot less of the highschool-drama type stories. I mean, they're ALL highschool dramas, but they're hs dramas with high adventure and magic or time travel or some kind of supernatural/fantastic element.
But one thing that's cool with what's happening with YA, from what I can see (not knowing much about it) is that fantasy isn't this separate, no-good thing that gets shunted to a corner, as in contemporary lit (unless it's popular. Seriously, we're not going to put The Road in the sci-fi section because it's well-written and a best seller. WTF? And those whom you try to let know that it IS sci-fi and the speculative aspect is all sci fi is think you're crazy and that you need to get back to your space ships). Is this happening YA because YA shelves are just smaller? Or there's just more YA fantasy being written?
Which reminds me, there needs to be more YA sci fi. I've been meaning to write THE NEW GREAT YA SCI FI, but . . . things like Avatar happen to me and then I can't think straight.
But yeah. I do know what YA means. Kind of.
I adore all your writing. You'd make me jealous, except you are so completely removed from what I am able to do that I just kind of drool a lot. I have to read your stuff slow though because it makes my noggin go into hyper-drive with cross-connections and THOUGHTS. I sent my housemate, who is awesome, a link to your Little Mermaid poem. She liked it a lot.