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dragovianknight) wrote2017-08-14 06:33 pm
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And then of course
There are the books where chapter 1 feels like the DM is setting up the campaign world for you. *sigh*
Is the current trend in YA really the "I am incompetent at everything and also clueless about my surroundings" character? Or is this just people trying to ape Harry Potter without going the necessary step of putting their MC in a world they genuinely have no way of knowing anything about?
Is the current trend in YA really the "I am incompetent at everything and also clueless about my surroundings" character? Or is this just people trying to ape Harry Potter without going the necessary step of putting their MC in a world they genuinely have no way of knowing anything about?
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There's also a post making the rounds on Tumblr about what a toxic environment the community of YA fiction writers is. Maybe there's some relation -- like the genre draws a lot of jagoffs or something.
http://maureenlycaon.tumblr.com/post/164040096051/the-toxic-drama-on-ya-twitter
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I blame it on Mercury retrograde, because the other alternative is probably encroaching senility.
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Also there’s kinda been a lot happening in the world to eat cognitive bandwidth. And I promise I wasn’t mocking-laughing, I just loved that it was literally a full circle. >.>
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Yeah. It's been a rough weekend emotionally for lots of us, given recent events.
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I mean Garion in The Belgariad (which totally starts like a YA) is a perf example and that's the 80s.
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This was triggered, not by Thor's book (I mean, hey, he DID at least know how to tend the sheep!), but by the book I tried to start after that one. In which the Very Poor Hero living in the Falling Down Shack with his drunk father and hard working mother had somehow managed to make it to fifteen with zero useful life skills. Though, as this was on top of the Very Poor Family having a horse (but as far as I could tell, no chickens/livestock/garden) that the mother rode to her job as a fish-gutter, I'm going to guess the Hero had no clue about the world because the author had no clue about the world.
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And then the Three Most Important Knights In The Kingdom showed up to make him a squire and I just quietly turned off my kindle.
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My boggle over them having a horse, but no chickens or other food animals, is topped only by the book where the poor starving family did have chickens and sold the eggs to buy food. All of the eggs. Not the extra eggs that were left after they fed their starving children. And then the daughter used the egg money to buy ribbons or some nonsense.
Many of these books are only saved from being wallbangers because I won't throw my kindle.
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Mind you, at this point given that the House of Extreme Poverty has separate living room, kitchen, and (one assumes, though these aren't mentioned) bedrooms, I'm going to wager that mom had some stew meat in the freezer for a special occasion.
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It's not like you have to dig through a library any more to get this stuff. I've found very good basic medieval info in a few minutes of Googling, written by historians
But they probably think that since it's all fantasy, they don't have to do any research.
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Seriously, it should be a starter text for all writers of fantasy works because it's essentially a list of "traps for young players". If I can basically tick off items on the fantasy "tour" from that book, you need to re-draft.
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I may have read this book in draft form, just sayin. Grab me on skype if you want o know more :P