I'm going to write a young adult novel filled to the brim with every young adult trope my friends and I can think of...

I'm going to write a young adult novel filled to the brim with every young adult trope my friends and I can think of. It'll be very satirical and my target audience won't even realise it.

The following are things my friends and I have already brainstormed about and believe have their place in the definitive young adult novel:

- Someone dying of a terminal illness

- Two teenagers falling in love and facing various obstructions because of it

- One of the teenagers must have a strange affinity for nineteenth century poetry (romanticism... shouldn't even have to explain this)

- Parents are generally useless

- One of the characters must want to study veterinary medicine in the future because she 'just loves animals'

- All of the teenage characters have embarrassing nicknames given to them by their parents such as 'candyfloss' and 'margarita'

-no one "understands" them

- they're freakishly different and go against societal norms even those that are useful and important so they must be unique and superior to everyone else

- novel must reference bad music that no one really likes and claim that its great and people don't get it.

- glorifies decisions that would be stupid to make in the real world.

- all like able and well developed characters must be relegated to the most marginal positions in the story.

- There must be references to various David Lynch films because one of the character classifies himself as 'extremely cultured and unfortunately a hipster as cause-and-effect' and always name drops David Lynch film productions or the Talking Heads without realising they aren't underground at all

- One of the characters wants to join a jazz group and is in a local indie rock band and wants them to play New Orleans Funeral Jazz inspired songs. Said character only knows basic open chords and can only improvise in the keys of C and G major.

- The boy character views sex as something secular, temporal and carnal until eventually he actually engages in sexual intercourse with a girl and promptly falls in love, proving himself wrong in the process. There will be a soliloquy of sorts in which he invokes the spirit of Kanye West's Yeezus and speaks of his newfound humility and how difficult it is to juggle it with his dated pride.

- there must be a background character who is diagnosed with a terminal illness but it is only mentioned in passing and he receives no sympathy for it and his sole reason for existence is comic relief at his expense

- the girl who wants to be a vet only wants to be a vet because her per dog died in tragic and easily avoidable circumstances but they didn't have insurance. She is a socialist and aspiring veterinarian because of this harrowing series of events.

Please add to this list. I want to make sure I fill every niche so it appeals to everyone. I'm pretty sure it already has the makings of a number one international bestseller.

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This seems like an exercise in misery. Make sure one of the characters is a little self aware and points out that their lives feel like they have been written by someone who has a fetish for misery

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- Lesbians

I like the bit on being interested in romanticism. You can have them want to emulate the romantics because of their tight knit friendships as well. Have a scene where the characters figure out who is who, I.e. if there’s two best friends who sometimes fight they should be Byron and Shelley, with the more adventurous and flippant one being Byron and the more intellectual and eccentric one being Shelley. Have a character who is too good for the world and make them Keats, they can be the one who will die young, etc. etc.. the romantics have lots of funny anecdotes about the antics they got into together (like Byron not being allowed to have a dog in university, so he brings a pet bear instead) so you can reference those as well.

One of them is inexplicably the only cyborg in the world.

Wow dude, sounds epic. Be sure to check out the Brandon Sanderson masterclass series.

O fuck. Im writing a novel where the parents are drug addicts or toxic. But eventually they get better as they develop more. Is that bad or cliche?

>love triangles
>"poetry" with no rhyme whatsoever
>the villain is a very old and very evil lady
>references to comic books and star trek

You need to throw in there a long distance relationship (or any kind really) that is ruined by external circumstances while the lovers are extremely in love

Said teens have some otherwordly aspect and must hide it from regulars

>le percy jackson y harry podder

Can't think of a single young adult book with lesbians in it. Try bi female that never actually hooks up with another female but maybe flirts and/or thinks about a girl one time. Or gay/bi male sidekick.

- "A Novel"

somewhere in the middle of the story, out of nowhere, reveal that they are living under a dystopian dictatorship.

Also at the end of the story the regime is destroyed because of something gay like the power of love, or because the main girl chaacter was just like totally born perfect

- There must be an adult well in his forties that sort of idolizes the teens and sees "potential" in them and thinks they will change the world even though hes an adult and should understand they are just kids that now nothing of life that are going through an angsty-edgy phase.

- Should at least include every trope explored in Donnie Darko as it is the edgy teen movie by excellence.

The main character has to be revealed to be the chosen one in some way to stroke the egos of your teenage audience. It can't be YA without that trope. Or if your target audience are girls, the male love interest should be the chosen one.

Also the general setting needs to be a shitty, oppressive world where the people's only hope is a couple of brave youths.

Good point. Make him suffer but have hidden potential that waits to be unleashed

You shouldnt write a parody.
Write a deconstruction so you can end YA forever.

Like in the end, turns out they werent the chosen one and the evil goverment wins

Better yet, have the change come in some boring way. Like, the evil dictator is forced into retirement by his underlings and his successor implements some reforms and the resistance members are pardoned and are offered cushy government jobs.

Also the romance plot gets resolved and the main character gets the love interest, but make sure to portray their actual life together as completely mundane.

Basically show that the pow character thinks he is the most important person in the world but in the end it turns out he is kind of irrelevent in the grand scheme of things.

ALSO I think the plot should focus on a very teenage predicament, like a local environment problem or something... that of course the two main characters, being schoolchildren and having no influence on worldly matters at all, somehow manage to lead a successful campaign to stop the environmental problem from happening. I'm talking about minor scale pollution or water charges or something.

It should be an EBIC deconstruction of all this. A trilogy: "Death of YA", "Rebirth of YA", "End of YA"