How to Write Young Adult Fiction -Storytelling Secrets - BMEStoryPodcast

Do you love young adult novels? Have you always wanted to write YA? Are you struggling with structure for your young adult fiction? We ask writer Anita Saxena for her tips and secrets to writing and crafting the YA novel. Young Adult fiction has been a publishing and box-office juggernaut for the last 20 years. From Harry Potter to Twilight to the Hunger Games, these coming of age stories have captured the hearts and minds of kids, teens, and adults. Whereas adult fiction might leave you with an unsettling, ambiguous or lackluster ending, Young Adult fiction shows that love and goodness always win in the end. Anita Saxena has been an instructor for the Pelham Writing Workshop and an adjunct professor for the UAB Honor’s program where she taught how to write a young adult or middle grade novel. She’s a member of the Society of Children Book Writers and Illustrators. She’s got two novels coming out next year. Here are some of the topics we cover in this episode of Beginning Middle End Story Podcast: 00:00 Meet YA fiction author Anita Saxena 01:20 What makes a good story? 01:34 Why is young adult and middle grade fiction great? 02:25 What can you do in a middle grade/ young adult fiction book that you can’t do with “adult books”? 04:18 What’s your favorite young adult fiction book and why? 05:05 Why do adults love YA fiction? 05:32 How do you structure a YA fiction book? 08:30 Is plot more important for a series than a standalone novel? 10:31 What are your next books to come out? 13:26 Write what you know? 14:21 What did you wish you knew about writing when you started? 15:52 Ice Skating as a YA fiction genre 17:02 What's your best piece of storytelling advice? You can find out more about Anita Saxena and order her ice skating books at https://www.anitasaxena.com Find her on Twitter @anita_writes Find out more about Magic City Theater on Ice: https://www.magiccitytheatreonice.com If you like these storytelling secrets from a young adult fiction writer then please subscribe to spilledinkmedia and master the art of storytelling. https://www.youtube.com/user/spilledi... You can tweet at me on Twitter @OptionalD . We’re just starting out on this story journey so any positive review, comment or thumbs up really helps. Tune in next time as we unravel more great story threads. If you'd like to subscribe to the audio podcast then find us on your favorite platform: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4jRa8IV... Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=641707 AmazonMusic/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/c53... iHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/84659778/ Google Play: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=... RadioPublic: https://radiopublic.com/beginning-mid... http://spilledink.media/ BMEStoryPodcast-Season01-Episode04 ©2021 a Spilled Ink Media Production #storytelling #bmestorypodcast #writing #storystructure