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Originally Posted by meeera
Irritating as I found this repeated attempt at promotion, I took your challenge and read a little more. I found more grammatical errors, tense inconsistencies, numerals that should be spelled out... so I stopped again.
Honestly, it needs editing. A lot of editing. Plain and simple. I realise you want to hide this behind "style", but a lot of it is just wrong. The book is exactly what I expected from the cover.
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I'm sorry you feel this way. I realize that a lot of people in the writing world will be put off by the writing, and I accept that. I get it, there's some grammatical errors in there beyond the "its vs. it's" that we discussed yesterday, but I put them in there personally because, quite frankly, it really goes against the story. The stream-of-consciousness elements and the fact that there is a young narrator don't exactly lend themselves to perfect grammar rules. A lot of the thoughts of the narrator sort of get blended together and grammar rules can't account for that. My style is also to sort of "pack the page", so I sort of go against grammar rules in order to do that.
Look, I obviously think it works and you obviously don't. The lone reviewer who posted an amazon review noted that the writing was well done. I'm sure there are also a lot of people who think the writing is terrible and in desperate need of editing. And I'm ok with that. I trust my work and what is in the novella. I'm sorry that you don't, but it definitely seems like you aren't the right audience for this type of writing. But, thank you again for taking the time to discuss the novella with me. You honestly did give me some good insights. - David