When I was writing the book, I worried it would be too much for readers. I did my best to build in moments of joy and clarity--little breathers, if you like.
I did notice the "moments of joy and clarity" and they were welcome breathers. While I would certainly have welcomed more, I don't know that I would have wanted you to change a word of the novel -- it's got power, impact; I wouldn't want to risk losing one jot of that. Now that it's over I'm glad it was so intense; the sorts of traumas Lore was dealing with are shrugged off far too often in (genre) fiction IMO, and seeing those topics done so well hit me somewhere deep and dark.
It wasn't exactly pleasant, but I'm deeply grateful now.
And it's possible that part of the reason it was so hard was that I connected so personally with Lore's moments of joy that I could not distance myself as a reader when the pain came.
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When I was writing the book, I worried it would be too much for readers. I did my best to build in moments of joy and clarity--little breathers, if you like.
Perhaps not enough :)
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I did notice the "moments of joy and clarity" and they were welcome breathers. While I would certainly have welcomed more, I don't know that I would have wanted you to change a word of the novel -- it's got power, impact; I wouldn't want to risk losing one jot of that. Now that it's over I'm glad it was so intense; the sorts of traumas Lore was dealing with are shrugged off far too often in (genre) fiction IMO, and seeing those topics done so well hit me somewhere deep and dark.
It wasn't exactly pleasant, but I'm deeply grateful now.
And it's possible that part of the reason it was so hard was that I connected so personally with Lore's moments of joy that I could not distance myself as a reader when the pain came.
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