Be a moderately successful YA author

Not that fucked, that happens all the time with published writers.

Your publisher will set the deadline back, but renegotiate the terms so that they make more money out of it. You'll worry and slave over the book for the next two years or so, and eventually turn it in and they'll make basically all the money off it, and you'll get shafted, and labled difficult to work with to boot.

All because you're a lazy fuck.

If Philip K Dick and Michael Moorcock can write so much, you can. Besides it's only popular lit. Do it like Dash Hammett rather than Raymond Chandler.

You must at least have some outlines and ideas prepared.

Make like GM and crank it son

sit down and vomit that shit out, just the bare bones. don't do drugs to finish it, that's just another excuse to procrastinate. you need to discipline yourself, you're posting on Veeky Forums while you could be writing. it doesn't have to be good, it just has to be done, there will be time for editing later.

Am i tripping? I swear i read this exact post and replies before. Im not even sure it was on Veeky Forums. Weird...

everything here is the same as it was.
even your post.
even mine.

Woah

Speedwrite it. First of all you just need to sit down and write, doesn't matter if you want to or not, just do it. Second you need inspiration, follow the basic YA formula and if you get stuck just look around you for something to use for the story that gets your imagination going. Could be an art book, old toys or whatever. Anything that makes you think and that you could use in your story.

Personally I use a tarot deck when I get stuck, the rich symbolism helps me conjure up new directions and events. The most important thing is that you have something evocative so you don't just stare at your word processor when you run out of ideas. Keep the text flowing.

Keep writing as long and often as you can until the story is done.

If you haven't read it already this might also help somewhat:
ghostwoods.com/2010/05/how-to-write-a-book-in-three-days-1210/

>You must at least have some outlines
Also this, but you should have them done by now, OP.

You can't even write a glorified children's book while you sit on what amounts to a fancy welfare check for six months? I hope you get blacklisted and starve to death in the street. Fuck "young adult fiction" and the retarded manchildren, like you, that write it. Widespread literacy was a mistake and people like you prove it, cunt. Fuck you.

Make a high school anime-like book where all the major western philosophers are the students
>edgy CRAWLING kid is Schopenhauer
>Chad is Camus
>Kant is the autistic one
>Nietzsche the cool kid greaser guy
>Kierkegaard the cute but semi-autistic quiet poet guy
>The Greeks are the teachers

>You can't even write a glorified children's book
How many YA books have you've gotten published? How many Veeky Forums tier fictions? How many philosophical works?

Even basic genre garbage takes a lot of work.

Try to control your panic.
That's the only piece of advice I can give you

I don't want a YA book published because I'm not a manchild. If it takes a lot of work to write that shit then you should go out and do something useful with your time. It's worthless shit and I have no respect for anyone that writes it.

And the argument that because I haven't had something published my opinion is illegitimate is reddit-tier retardation.

try harder next time

>And the argument that because I haven't had something published my opinion is illegitimate is reddit-tier retardation.
That was not my argument, the point was that it's better to be published than not at all.

Nice job figuring that one out. You must have a genius IQ, clearly that's exactly the kind of person that reads books designed for fourteen year old girls.

No it isn't. Producing bad art has a negative effect on society. Young adult fiction is the literary equivalent of shitting in the street and making other people look at it.

Iv never gotten the hate against YA novels

They're literature just like anything else and entertain many people

>makes
you're not forced to read ya, retard

Iv never got the criticism of Caroll Dunham

It's artwork like anything else and it may entertain some people

Looks like we've got ourselves a true plebeian here boys

Like I said, negative effect on society. The state of literature is in a terrible place because the largest and most marketed "genre" is designed for teenagers. If you don't see why this is bad you are a retard.

It is a job though. Literature already went to shit the moment women invaded, nobody's going to notice if you shit the place up with another YA novel. If not you someone else was going to write it anyway because there's a demand for it.

Start with writing for fun.

There are single cell organism with more brain power than you. You should take the last Harry Potter book and beat yourself to death with it. I know you have a copy.

First of all it's amoral to take part in the degradation of society even if there is a market for it. It's like people that produce violent pornography, just because there is an audience doesn't mean you should become involved.

Second young adult fiction is just an excuse to write badly. It allows the writer to create simplistic, pointless, vapid stories by saying that they are writing for teenagers. Good writers write for people, not a marketable audience. I have zero respect for anyone that writes young adult fiction.

Sounds like someones really jelly of how successful YA books are while their "mature novel for mature readers" gets rejected

If you take what I wrote and that's all you get out of it I really don't care about your opinion. Keep reading books designed for teenagers, faggot.

You're a piece of shit.
You've got your foot in the fucking door and you're fucking it up like a pussy.
There are dozens of talented authors out there who live in filth and die alone and unheard of and youre given an opportunity none of them ever had, and you blow it because you're anxious.
Fuck you.

Yeah u jelly

Alright lads, I talked to my agent and he spoke to the publisher. I got a two month extension to my deadline although they aren't happy about it and it's going to cost me on the backend, I'll also need to eat into my savings from my other work. I have until the beginning of March to write 75,000 words and to self edit to a reasonable standard. Wish me luck.

That's fucking nothing lad, throw your phone into a lake, smash your TV with a bat, and give a homeless man your computer power cable and hammer that out in a month tops my ladderino
also what's the book fampai I want to read your work

I'm sure he doesn't want to reveal his identity, but come on OP let us know how much money your making many of us are hoping to one day be in your panicky shoes.

This would actually be pretty great

Should have speedwritten it and then edited it into something decent with the time remaining. Just don't do the same mistake of not writing again, you better spend your every free moment writing and get something good out. Can't half-ass it after getting an extension.

You have some 80 days to do it, so you only need to write some thousand words a day
I wouldn't take risks however; do at least three thousand words a day so you would have something to edit out too

Just open up a googledoc and let Veeky Forums write it for you. I'm sure your publisher would love it.

>DUDE XANAX LMAO
This is far more sensible than it sounds on surface, OP. Seconded.

>Go browse /a/ and rip off what looks good this season.
>Going to /a/
>Watching seasonal anime
He said "old anime plots" for a reason.

Diogenes is the homeless man that lives in the bushes behind the soccer field.