/lit/ - Literature

>Part of my character's development is reflected in the terminology of his own internal monologue, which shifts gradually over the course of the story.
>However, since the story is in first person and the change generally goes from an unnatural to natural style of thought, it also looks a lot like I just got lazy and started to use easier words. Also the character himself is largely unaware of the change.
>In an effort to remedy this issue I deliberately drew attention to certain aspects of it once or twice during edits.
>Still worried people won't get it.
Why do I do this to myself?

>>17608691
>at the current rate of average words per chapter the story will be at least 240k words
>pretty unlikely that editing will cut the wordcount significantly
Well I guess it's a good thing I always planned to go with digital self-publishing because there isn't a sane publishing company on earth who would take a risk on a first novel that long.

>>16888291
Not sure if he is even a rightoid. He might be the true "classical liberal" and got BDFO'd by the real world.