Yup, I did. Thanks for catching that.
Secondly, you move the goalpost.
There was a goalpost?
This is irrelevant since I didn't mention AUTHORS. Nor did you.
What are you saying? The entire post is about Authors and choosing whether or not they want to cut chapters into tiny 1000k bits.
My take is that 1000k is too small for a chapter, especially for those who read for pleasure, and yours appears to be that people whose first language is not English, or reading English translations would have a hard time with larger chapters.
We talk about readers. Readers that you insulted (in my opinion, it was an insult). You judge readers across the world, you judge people with different levels of English using yourself (an established author) as an example. I won't even mention how people have different reading habits and preferences, and how their health differs. If you can't comprehend the difference between yourself and everyone else (beside your readers, the world is bit bigger than that), and insist on calling a person who does not share your reading habit a middle-school kid, I have nothing else to add.
I
do judge others by my reading level. So what? I'm not writing stories for
World Comprehension, or English comprehension beginners. I'm writing for those who equal or top my level of reading comprehension; college-level English readers.
If my stories are too hard for readers with a lower level of English comprehension, then they can go read something simpler and easier to read, such as; middle-school level light novels with their simpler story structures, simpler character development, lack of description, and simpler vocabulary.
If that's considered an insult -- so be it.
JPN Light Novels
were written for middle-school
kids and early high-school
young adults (grades: 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th -- the puberty years.)
These kids have a lower level of literacy, so the vocabulary of these books is Simplified to make comprehension easier. These books also have shorter word counts, 40k to 60k in length, to accomodate a kid's shorter attention span. Additionally, the plotting of these books tend to feed into a kid's wish-fulfillment of being all-powerful and/or sexually attractive to multiple people -- even if said books never cover how to properly handle either situation.
Light novels are Kids' Books. This is a Fact. This doesn't mean that adults aren't allowed to read light novels or like them. I happen to be very fond of the
Harry Potter series which are also kids' books.
However...
There are
manga clearly meant for adults with a far higher level of vocabulary, multi-layered characterizations, and far more convoluted plotting than found in Light Novels. Just off the top of my head;
Gantz,
Death Note, and
Mahoutsukai no Yome/Ancient Magus Bride. They feature MCs that are In College, and all three manga use a much higher level of vocabulary than in the average light novel -- even in their
English Translations.
None of this, however, means that
you can't write light novels and enjoy the readership that love them.
It just means that "I" don't.
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