#tbh i had kinda missed there was a trend among certain readers about this
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This is how I write too and frankly it's how I have learned many new words. Just as I won't have a child character describe something with eloquent words, I will not dumb down a character who absolutely would use the fanciests words possible
This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.
I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.
You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.
#tbh i had kinda missed there was a trend among certain readers about this#mostly because i more or less live under a rock and miss most of the drama#but i'm not very surprised it's a thing#i get complaining if it's like course litterature#and you can tell the writer has written it to impress other academics rather than explain things to students#even though it's supposed to be aimed for students who are new to the subject#but that's a different thing#characters have their own voice and you're not only doing the character a disservice if you ignore it#you make the whole book a disservice bc the characters will sound more similar and nuance gets washed away and so on#and also that it's good opportunities for readers to learn new words and grow themselves#(i learned what ineffable means that way for example)
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