But what I want to discuss today is something that I’ve been thinking about ever since I finished Metl’s first draft: can a novel be classified as “shonen?”
At first it might seem like asking if a novel can be shonen is a stupid question.
The reason I’ve been pondering this recently is because a book I wrote was just published this month.
A climax in a novel by necessity needs to have more going on that just a two-person fight.