u/Dear-Atmosphere1340

Hi all,

I'm in the process of a first draft, but I have been unsure about one thing in particular. The draft is in first-person past tense with a young protagonist who is 10 years old in Chapter 1 then 14 years old from Chapter 2 onwards. However, the actual narration is an older version of him recounting the exact events of what takes place (this version of him is never actually met, so it is unknown how old he is).

My question is this: Is it acceptable for the dialogue to be age-accurate but the actual prose to read as if it was by an adult, even if it is never known how old he is when he is recounting the events?

I feel like I've phrased this question in quite a confusing way, but I'm struggling to think of how else to say it.

I really appreciate any advice I can get!

Hi all,

I'm in the process of a first draft, but I have been unsure about one thing in particular. The draft is in first-person past tense with a young protagonist who is 10 years old in Chapter 1 then 14 years old from Chapter 2 onwards. However, the actual narration is an older version of him recounting the exact events of what takes place (this version of him is never actually met, so it is unknown how old he is).

My question is this: Is it acceptable for the dialogue to be age-accurate but the actual prose to read as if it was by an adult, even if it is never known how old he is when he is recounting the events?

I feel like I've phrased this question in quite a confusing way, but I'm struggling to think of how else to say it.

I really appreciate any advice I can get!

After years of typing on a keyboard, I've only just discovered that doing the keyboard shortcut windows+full stop opens up a small panel with a large number of symbols and emojis, with the em dash being one of them.

I also just found out that the - I've being using for years instead of that is meant more for joining two or three words together or for when showing a range between two years. I guess I'm just a bit worried that using the em dash in any of my writing would lead to be people labelling it as AI so I was wondering if any of you here had any opinions on it

Apologies if this question is too simple. Whilst searching on Google, I've honestly been struggling a bit with getting a good answer regarding it as to me, there seems to be a number of different aspects that contribute to the classification of a book as either Young Adult or Adult fiction

For example, the age of the main character, the level of violence and sexual content, the overall word count (though I might be mistaken on if these actually matter, which is part of why I'm making this post).

I'm just wondering if I can get some advice on what classification my plan would fall into:

* The protagonist is a 13 year old boy and the deuteragonist is a 17 year old boy

* There is no sexual content at all (90% sure that won't change)

* However, there will be a decent level of violence including violence & injury towards the protagonist and another teen of the same age. Not graphic violence at all, but to a higher degree than I've normally seen in YA books I've read

* Many of the events of the book are set off by the murder of a 13 year old girl

* This probably doesn't matter because I've read YA books with this before, but the book does have a tragic ending. Nothing happy about it

I really appreciate any advice I can get!

Apologies if this question is too simple. Whilst searching on Google, I've honestly been struggling a bit with getting a good answer regarding it as to me, there seems to be a number of different aspects that contribute to the classification of a book as either Young Adult or Adult fiction

For example, the age of the main character, the level of violence and sexual content, the overall word count (though I might be mistaken on if these actually matter, which is part of why I'm making this post).

I'm just wondering if I can get some advice on what classification my plan would fall into:

* The protagonist is a 13 year old boy and the deuteragonist is a 17 year old boy

* There is no sexual content at all (90% sure that won't change)

* However, there will be a decent level of violence including violence & injury towards the protagonist and another teen of the same age. Not graphic violence at all, but to a higher degree than I've normally seen in YA books I've read

* Many of the events of the book are set off by the murder of a 13 year old girl

* This probably doesn't matter because I've read YA books with this before, but the book does have a tragic ending. Nothing happy about it

I really appreciate any advice I can get!

I already managed to get the trolli peel and the fanta toyota but was just wondering if there are any others to be redeemed in the same way