>hmm how I can write a YA novel but market it for adults?

>>8319996
Just go use the bathroom.

>>8319996
If you want to write a YA novel and market it to adults, just skip the bullshit and write a straight up adult novel.

I don't understand /lit/'s dislike of this book. It was clearly written and marketed towards the DnD crowd. I don't think it's even attempting to be "literature", it's just fantasy geared towards nerds who like dnd and bards.

>>8322009
Honestly I feel like this has become a justification for bad fantasy, It's even worse when books are self-labelled by the author as a campaign setting a la Erikson as a excuse.

I played GURPS back in 70's hehe xD

This story is incredible probably my favorite fantasy.

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How do I write a children's novel and market it to adults? I'm planning a story about a mediocre potions witch trying to make a living in her shop on a flying island, where she discovers fun things about her world with other characters in tow, but apparently this is either for kids or old people. I want to make Western iyashikei.

>>8322151
The word your looking for is "Aesthetic".

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>>8319996

Be intricate

>>8322085
No, I don't think you're correct here. A lot of people like this very specific sort of fantasy I'm talking about here. They're looking for a certain type of language (i.e. DnD speak) as well as certain character and setting tropes that give the story that flavor they're looking for.

I don't think it's an excuse, and Rothfuss's writing is not too bad for what it is, but it's still definitely trying to be a specific sort of story that fulfills all the nerd's wants and wishes. It's definitely written with a specific reader in mind who won't just dismiss something like a person's "alar", or fantasy words with egregious apostrophes mid-word (like El'the, Re'lar, etc...) as being juvenile. A reader who's reading "literature" will look at stuff like that and think "that's stupid" because it does seem very silly when read as an outsider (and in truth it is, but most of us just don't care)