*The actual book's formatting is much better!*
Dear blooming wordsmith,
Whether it’s navigating young love, toppling despotic regimes, coping with addiction, or rebelling against mommy and daddy for no good reason, the Young Adult genre has a little something for everyone. Or it would, if YA authors weren’t total fucking hacks.
If you’re reading this book, you’re likely bored to death of encountering the same threadbare tropes, clichés, and characters over and over. You’re probably tired, too, of the pandering language and fake edginess. You might even hate the unnecessary political correctness and awkward social commentary. Lucky for you, though, you’re not the only one.
I give you: Young Adult Prompts Gone Wild, the salve for all that is wrong with today’s teenie tales, and your personal ticket to radical YA writing. Take a stroll with me as we craft the baddest bad boy character of all time, create the world’s first love dodecahedron, track down a nefarious vape thief, examine botched school shootings, and everything delicious and deplorable in between. It’s time to show the world what YA’s been missing.
Enjoy!
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The Fault in Our Stars. But this time, Hazel and Augustus have chlamydia.*
*Perhaps we ought to call this version The Fault in Our Junk.Â
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You and ten of your friends made the mistake of boarding a Boeing 737 Max, and now you’ve crash-landed on a tropical island off the coast of buttfuck nowhere. Without your nicotine pods, your Snapchat, or your homemade lunches, you’re going to have to fend for yourselves.3 I know! You should try to kill one another.*
*If you’re lucky, one of you might even become the proverbial Lord of the Flies.
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Unite these words in short story glory:
apple bong, book report, ecclesiastical, urethra, county fair, extraterrestrials.
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Vampires and werewolves are sexy, loveable, even. But they’ve also been done to fucking death. Your narrative follows a true modern monster: A MAGA-loving Christian televangelist.
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Make poor ol’ George Orwell spin in his grave. Create a story where the main character lives in a despotic, authoritarian dystopia. . . . . .and loves every second of it.*
*They’ve got 1984 problems, but their willingness to overlook horrific crimes against humanity ain’t one.
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Edward and Bella of Twilight are no longer star-crossed lovers. They’re six years into marriage and the parents of three fussy vampire newborns. And things aren’t going so well at home. . .*
*It’s like the realest Wattpad fan fic you’ve ever read.
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The cancer that killed a young adult shows up to the funeral. And things are uncomfortable.*
*Let’s not question the plausibility of a walking, talking manifestation of cancer cells attending a funeral, shall we?Â
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One day, Shonie discovers that the lyrics to the songs she hears are playing out in her own life—regardless of their subject matter. Strange, embarrassing, and downright disgusting things now follow her everywhere she goes. . .
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