Discussion and questions about the need to include diversity in fiction from the Hunger Games and the controversy of race when the movie came out to the need for diversity in young adult fiction have been included here from time to time. It’s one thing to write about the issue in a blog or to spark discussion. It’s different when it becomes a major part in a current project. Now for me, the discussion moves from a hypothetical need for more diversity in genre fiction to how I’m going to deal with it in my own writing. As readers and writers, we need to acknowledge that there is a serious lack of diversity in fantasy fiction. Don’t believe me, watch this viral video of…
Jenn Falls – My Writing Journey
Posts from the “YA Literature” Category
Remember that Choose Your Own Adventure book series? It was completely corny, but what a fun concept. You were the protagonist who got some story background, and then presented with a problem. Once you read the problem, you got to choose what you would do and turn to the recommended page for your choice. From there, you would learn more, and then get to make another choice until at the end, presumably you, the reader, had created your own adventure reading experience. And the next time you encountered the book, you could make different choices. As I young reader, I thought they were fun books. I kind of wish that navigating the publishing world were more like a Choose Your Own Adventure book. I…
Once again, I realized that it’s been a while since I’ve updated my writing journey. I’d love to tell you that in that amount of time, I wrote two books, but alas – I’m not that prolific. However, I have been contemplating what it takes to be a writer, what I need to accomplish in order to justify taking time off working in order to write, and how I need to kick into gear. One of my decisions is that I need to kill the idea of writing my one little darling project and start working on multiple projects. My decision gets wrapped up in my obsession about the publishing world. I could write an entire blog post on the woes of publishing.…
