I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.
For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
I can't seem to write young enough anymore.
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.