{"id":1403700,"date":"2022-11-01T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1403700"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:00:49","slug":"15-brilliant-plot-ideas-for-your-ya-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/15-brilliant-plot-ideas-for-your-ya-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Brilliant Plot Ideas for Your YA Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lovesimonyaplotsMAIN_Slide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1449453\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish we lived in a world where everyone was having good ideas all the time. But we don&#8217;t live in that world. Case in point: they keep making&nbsp;<em>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>&nbsp;films. Who is asking for more&nbsp;<em>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>? That&#8217;s not a judgment, incidentally; I understand. I myself haven&#8217;t had a good idea since 2013, and I&#8217;ve made my peace with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;re in the same boat. Maybe you also have not had a good idea since 2013. Maybe this is why you WANT to do \u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NaNoWriMo<\/a> \u00a0this year and write the next big YA novel, but you just don&#8217;t have the creative energy necessary to dream up a workable plot. If that&#8217;s the case, don&#8217;t worry! We already did the hard part for you and put together a slideshow of YA plots you can use, and it&#8217;s not too late to start as long as you begin writing immediately and DON&#8217;T STOP FOR THE REST OF THE MONTH. GODSPEED.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish we lived in a world where everyone was having good ideas all the time. But we don&#8217;t live in that world. Case in point: they keep making&nbsp;Pirates of the Caribbean&nbsp;films. Who is asking   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[613,24922,15298,8661,8528,15297,3255,1276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403700"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449454,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403700\/revisions\/1449454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}