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Q&A Should I avoid "big words" when writing to a younger audience?

Klippy, your intuition is correct. Your audience comes first. It’s the reason why you write the book. It doesn’t matter who else reads it, its only important that it pleases your audience. A pleas...

posted 4y ago by James Axsom‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T13:06:47Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar James Axsom‭ · 2019-12-08T13:06:47Z (over 4 years ago)
Klippy, your intuition is correct.

Your audience comes first. It’s the reason why you write the book. It doesn’t matter who else reads it, its only important that it pleases your audience. A pleased audience then tells others about your book via word of mouth (i.e. those outside of your audience). Your audience grows and you earn authorship recognition.

It may be a great learning opportunity to learn a new 25 cent word, but that such writing belongs to a textbook author whose target audience are students, not a fiction writer whose audience seeks a moment of time where the your reader escapes reality in your story world.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-10-07T22:30:36Z (over 4 years ago)
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