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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda
You cannot please both groups. It is pointless to try.
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I'm with Nancy. There were one or two words total across all the stories that made me think "Hm. That's an odd word choice for a kid's story" and one of them I had to look up myself.
Other than that, isn't one of the points of reading to learn and expand vocabulary? Your stories are for people who think so.
ON THE OTHER HAND, it's not impossible that you inadvertently chose some words well above YOUR intended audience level and may want to reconsider some choices.
I think the distinction has to be you correcting places if you decide you were being needlessly unclear or hoity-toity, rather than you decidedly writing to lower reading level overall.
Does that help at all?