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Q&A Am I making the writing too complex?

My story is of a fantasy world where the wars of several species have all been fought, lost, and the protagonist is writing his journal from inside a jail cell. The writing he does can't be erased....

3 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Dawe Sinlow‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T04:04:31Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/16332
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Dawe Sinlow‭ · 2019-12-08T04:04:31Z (about 5 years ago)
My story is of a fantasy world where the wars of several species have all been fought, lost, and the protagonist is writing his journal from inside a jail cell. The writing he does can't be erased. I want to keep all his thoughts in. Would it be too much if I kept part of the writing in the journal, but just have it crossed out? What I want to do is keep the mistakes in his writing crossed out but legible so readers can read his real thoughts/things he edits out of his journal. Would this be too much? Would people understand what I'm doing?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2015-02-25T20:12:41Z (almost 10 years ago)
Original score: 2