So
the other day I attended a creative writing club meeting. That was all good
until I found a friend from that class and started walking back to get lunch.
She was nice and it is always good to find people that write like you do and we
were having a great conversation until she asked me what type of things I wrote.
The conversation went down like this.
Me:
Oh well, I read a lot in the Young Adult genre and that is why I like to write
in it. I write Young adult.
Her:
So you write about vampires?
Vampires.
VAMPIRES.
VAMPIRES.
IS THAT WHAT THIS GENRE IS TO YOU?
DEAR
GOD WOMEN, SORT OUT YOUR PRIORITIES.
First
of all, I am disappointed in myself. Instead of saying that I write young
adult, I gave her a reason that I wrote in that genre and of course, that comes
of as an insult to YA. I had to explain myself and I really shouldn’t need to.
I should be able to just say that I write young adult because I like to.
Now
that I’ve got of that my chest, let’s talk about her.
Dear
god.
I
can’t even.
I
hate that people look down on our genre like it is a speck of dust, that it is
a lesser than other genres and doesn’t count as literature. The young adult
genre is not just about vampires as I’m sure you are all clear about. Yeah,
sure, there are a bunch of Young adult books that have vampires but there are
just as much that are not Young Adult books. For example, Dracula.
God,
I just want to slap people sometimes. Slap them and then throw them off
buildings and then suffocate them and then eat them.
They
deserve it.
Now
this is a quite random post and barely a discussion but I just wanted to write
something about it. One day I will write a whole novel on this damn topic and
publish it so the whole world can see it, but right now I just wanted to show a
piece of ignorance and see if there are any conversations or events like this
that have happened to you? Leave them in the comments! I would love to know.
