How do you write generic YA dystopian trash literature?

How do you write generic YA dystopian trash literature?

>white dudes

yeah they'd be black for sure, OP you're a faggot

Exactly what your pic lists, but also:
>very little world-building
>protagonist must always be right
>parents are evil
>authority is inheritly evil, except when the protagonist agrees with it
>protagonist is the most important character in the story

wait so are you implying that growing older about making other people rather than your personal ego the most important element of your self narrative?

This is the best guide to write trash money-making books

>also I'm a vampire
Is My Immortal the logical conclusion to YAshit?

Any fanfic is pretty much a YA novel, so, yea.

protagonist comes from a lower-middle-class background, if possible. not rich, and not slave; something the target audience can identify with

protagonist is GIVEN amazing powers or a position of responsibility, NOT EARNED; the target audience doesn't want to have to work that hard for their empowerment fantasies

Yeah, it's porn for mousy white girls.

I brought up just this with my gf, and she made the point that guys are more into world building, and videogames appeal more to worldbuilding, while girls are more into character relations.

>the target audience doesn't want to have to work that hard for their empowerment fantasies

Hey don't blame me bitch, it's the age of instant gratification

True; but I can't be too smug. At 64 I'd sure like some instant gratification with one of those little target audience vampyre girls. Imagine her warm wet mouth biting me...aaaahhh....

pic has the basics of the formula. what more do you need?

sometimes they are rich but people just don't get them. sometimes they are poor but somehow enjoy the same education/etc other gifts as rich people. lack of money comes into play only so they can complain about when was the last time the had rich food, about their goodwill clothing or as a put down of other girls .
>rich girls protagonist does not like are always shown as shallow whores who don't deserve their wealth.

make sure the world makes no sense and antagonist or his son are in love with the protagonist

>NOT EARNED
correction, earned by existence. people give her stuff or attribute qualities to her that she has not earned. They will call her brave or loyal when she has done nothing of the sort and may have even sold out a friend few pages ago.
boys before friendship.
>have her be catty to other girls who are into the same boy. Have her call them whores in her mind.
>if her male friend is brainwashed/killed etc have her use that pain for emotional points
>if her love is a killer or dead. have her forgive everything and go to the ends of the world or raise him.

>Hey don't blame me bitch, it's the age of ins


tl;dr

>lack of money comes into play only so they can complain

this is not just YA for chicks, this is a rule in all pop culture today. economic conditions exist only for flavor and never actually limit the protagonist in any way, all limitations are in their head only and will be removed once they learn to believe in themselves or whatever. see for example star wars, where in 77 luke is stuck on a desert planet because his family's farm will not survive without his unpaid labor whereas in in the new ones what's-her-face is stuck on a desert planet because she has not yet learned to let go or something. the world is pliant and the only obstacle is your own trivially alterable attitude.

>white dudes
Disgusting. They should be non-White!

Write some actual good YA please since it is very rare

Sophie's World

>dudes
How transphobic!

Sign me up senpai

1) Be stupid.
2) Convince yourself you're smart.
3) Pick a hot-button idpol issue to comment on.
4) Pretend that culture hasn't advanced since the 80's.
5) Copy tropes from genre films.

"Wicker Basket" was funny. Would be a much better comic if it was only that panel.

Pick a socio-economic group that's dying out. Make your dystopia just a reflection of their daily lives but with evil rich people laughing in faces and some contrived, wholly unsustainable from of population control. Then make your female protagonist into the only person that can possibly bring the system down. Then basically just all the stuff that pic suggests.

grandpa go back to the nursing home and take your meds

but even the character relations in those books are extremely shallow and one dimensional

is this the only YA series that is actually good?

Don't forgot that one of the boys is softer and gets cucked and probably dies

that shit was beyond awful, probably the worst of the entire genre. Its like a 10+ bald 60 yearolds sat down in a room together to "gin up the next big hit"

Does YA mean teenagers or those in their early 20s

but it isn't. it's good. Darrow is good

1 is fine.
2 is bad and makes him a Mary Sue
3 is trash and full of plot holes

That's a good start, but it's lacking a few things
>World should be, if not post-apocalyptic, in the midst of some nondescript crisis that doesn't severely alter the normal way of life but makes everyone poor and miserable, except for an upper class who are almost comically distant from the commoners
>There needs to be some powerful, authoritative governing body who are unreasonably villainous for no good reason
>The heroine isn't close to her father, but it turns out he was secretly some kind of traitor to the government
>She doesn't really have a personality, but is vaguely distrustful and bitchy except towards her younger sibling, whom she loves dearly (which is demonstrated by giving her an apple or something), and people find her witty and engaging for no particular reason
>There aren't any other prominent women to threaten her role as the center of world

no
1 is good
2 is good
3 is good

>female protagonist
>love interests
>overcoming hardship surrounding value of the self
>moral dilemma involving villain eventually resolved through unexpected compromise after pages of pushing one solution involving loss of allies or loss or morals
>tyrannical government overthrown throughout nine part series

Teenage girls want justin bieber despite what twitter has told you.

14 to 21 but there's tons of adults that read YA.

BAME LGBTQIA+ upper-middle class cancer teen drama written via emoji instagram posts smashes the patriarchy with Make A Wish foundation by letting Dwayne THE ROCK Johnson and Kevin Hart burn her bra Pixar 3D unicorn Portland Oregon UniLad graphic tees.

>>protagonist must always be right
>>parents are evil
>>authority is inheritly evil,
Uh, yeah. It's a YA novel. That's what being YA is about. That's like, the only three emotions a teenager has. The fourth one is boning.

>Look at anybody’s first attempt at making a D’n’D character ever
>cringe
>weaponise that cringe
For real, 9/10 YA protagonists read like rpg characters. You don’t even need to have an original thought. There thousands of wish-fulfillment, escapist pieces out there that do the work for you.

>I'm befuddled by this weird society.
>I try to rise up but fail.
>Then capitalism was the monster.
>But there is hope, question mark.

man you're pretty fucking weird don't type your queer little vociferations.
Would you be surprised that kids for the most part haven't really formed an accurate representation of what a whole person should be yet and why this would appeal to them?

>you will never write a trilogy which achieves success and which makes you a millionaire, set for life
>you will never do the very occasional interview, actually going outside in public periodically, yet still getting a rep as being "reclusive" because women are forced to psychologically compare you to the average celebrity
>you will never let the dust settle for a few years after the work is complete, with women still pining for more and you not having yet completely slipped into irrelevance

>you will never, at the appropriate time a few years later, write an open letter to the series' fans, which hits all these right beats: Thank you for buying the books and giving me your money by proxy. I am sincerely glad that you derive pleasure from these books, and I wish you well in life. You have made my retirement possible, and for that, I am truly grateful. With that being said, you should be aware that the trilogy is complete trash, devoid of artistic merit. And no, it's not "trashy" in a good way, or in some camp way which has redemptive qualities. When I wrote the books, I explicitly crafted them to be easy trash which its readers would mistake for deep, interesting, genuine literature, exactly because they are not well-read. Seems that you're a part of that audience. Again, I thank you for being a part of that audience. You are free to defend the literary merit of these books yourself. Just be advised that if you do, their author disagrees with you, and planned them out as LCD moneymakers.

So is the target audience

This is like that kid who fantasizes about playing his favorite song in front of the whole school.

Yeah I do that too.

t. guy who wrote that

I'm going to write this book after I finish my novel.

>easy trash which its readers would mistake for deep, interesting, genuine literature, exactly because they are not well-read.

sounds like you wrote the average post-modern novel then

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