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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Now sweetie,
I think what you really want is for people to enjoy reading your books. Whether they get your exact meanings or not.[...]
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That would be nice too.
As you mentioned with regard to nightmares, it is possible to sometimes be too effective. One reader (a family member) could not finish my first novel. They never got past the first few chapters, they found them too depressing. In some respects this was flattering, they were intentionally emotive and tragic ... but they were not supposed to be so depressing that the reader couldn't keep going.
