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So I've been doing a decent amount of Nano prep work this year, and one thing has been bothering me about my character's ages.
The novel, Dreams Sent By Gods, or called the Somnia Project for short, is basically about 3 young adults who are being yanked between their desire to stay attached to the modern world and a desire to explore and lose themselves in an enchanting collective-consciousness dreamscape. The call hits these three in particular because they are reborn from old Greek mortals - Endymion, Psyche, Hycanith - who were jerked around during that life by gods, but the now-powerless gods want their little mortals back so they have SOMEONE to lord over again. The gods make the deal seem sweeter than it is, cause they are jerks and that's how they roll.
Anyways, my original plans were for these guys to be college-aged, about 20/21, in their junior years. Recently, I switched the season so that the novel takes place in the summer, putting them out of the grind of classes and more into work-situations. That was because something has been nagging me - why don't we see much fiction in which the characters are in college? We see a lot about people in high school, or young professionals, but the in-between seems lost in action.
Generally I do not think about how my book will market before I write it, but I don't want to shoot my leg off at the onset with this. Can anybody think of reasons that would deter people from wanting to read about people in college? Would you be turned off by it? Any reasons why?
Just looking for anybody's insight about it.
(I'm not preaching it as if "COLLEGE IS RIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL AND YOU ARE NOTHING WITHOUT IT." The main character, Lee, actually is struggling with whether or not he actually belongs there, if there is any benefit of it to him. The college is more a setting than anything else.)
The novel, Dreams Sent By Gods, or called the Somnia Project for short, is basically about 3 young adults who are being yanked between their desire to stay attached to the modern world and a desire to explore and lose themselves in an enchanting collective-consciousness dreamscape. The call hits these three in particular because they are reborn from old Greek mortals - Endymion, Psyche, Hycanith - who were jerked around during that life by gods, but the now-powerless gods want their little mortals back so they have SOMEONE to lord over again. The gods make the deal seem sweeter than it is, cause they are jerks and that's how they roll.
Anyways, my original plans were for these guys to be college-aged, about 20/21, in their junior years. Recently, I switched the season so that the novel takes place in the summer, putting them out of the grind of classes and more into work-situations. That was because something has been nagging me - why don't we see much fiction in which the characters are in college? We see a lot about people in high school, or young professionals, but the in-between seems lost in action.
Generally I do not think about how my book will market before I write it, but I don't want to shoot my leg off at the onset with this. Can anybody think of reasons that would deter people from wanting to read about people in college? Would you be turned off by it? Any reasons why?
Just looking for anybody's insight about it.
(I'm not preaching it as if "COLLEGE IS RIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL AND YOU ARE NOTHING WITHOUT IT." The main character, Lee, actually is struggling with whether or not he actually belongs there, if there is any benefit of it to him. The college is more a setting than anything else.)