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Originally Posted by David910
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.
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Again, I'm not talking about things like appropriately-placed sentence fragments, I'm talking about errors.
You may be happy to put your work out there with what appears to me to be little or no care for editing and presentation, but in your first post I got the impression you were concerned about gaining readership. Poor writing is an enormous barrier to you doing that. Being confident that poor writing is good writing is a barrier to you improving as a writer. It's not an insurmountable barrier, but attributing the problem to me as a reader instead of to your writing makes that mountain a lot higher.
I know this is blunt. I kinda feel it needs to be. Virtually all people start off writing not terribly well. Editing helps; honing your craft over time with hard work and critique groups helps a lot. Sitting back and being confident in your greatness, not so much.
But moving on: I suggest you find a good critique group and listen to the critiques you're given there.