Coldblue
Dreamer
I've been trying to get feedback from readers for my novel but it's been hard. I either get a simple "oh wow everything you did was great" or "I have this feedback... but I only read like 10 pages". I know all feedback is valid, but sometimes its hard to pull out what is going to make your novel better.
One bit of feedback I got recently was that the person thought "it was a little weird to have a fantasy setting with fantasy-esque names for towns, and then have normal names for characters". I gave it a thought for a second and thought it was a valid point: I tend to like non-traditional names for setting, modern first names, and non-traditional and varied last names.
But... is that a bad thing? If I'm consistent with that throughout, will the reader acclimate to my style and accept it, will they simply stop reading, or will it be something they forever don't enjoy?
How do you handle it when your style has a quirk, or you like "clashing" styles?
One bit of feedback I got recently was that the person thought "it was a little weird to have a fantasy setting with fantasy-esque names for towns, and then have normal names for characters". I gave it a thought for a second and thought it was a valid point: I tend to like non-traditional names for setting, modern first names, and non-traditional and varied last names.
But... is that a bad thing? If I'm consistent with that throughout, will the reader acclimate to my style and accept it, will they simply stop reading, or will it be something they forever don't enjoy?
How do you handle it when your style has a quirk, or you like "clashing" styles?