Glad to be joining you all
thanks for the warm welcome. I'm actually looking for some advice right now, so please share your words of wisdom! Well here goes. My book is a middle grade fantasy that I hope to have anywhere between 15000-20000 words. It started out with simple wording, and pacing. But as the story progresses so does the vocabulary until this point I'm at now (the fourth chapter) where almost all the simplicity is gone. And there's a dragon who's giving a monologue about why it's his way or he'll burn the world to ash. It's not a boring speech, I've kept it quite interesting, so it's not the kind of ranting kids hate. I just feel like him explaining the concept of how two dimensions, of fantasy and reality can connect with this cool key he has, may be too difficult for the simplicity the readers began with and perhaps continue to expect. Is making a story progressively a bigger concept too difficult for kids between 8-10, or a good idea? Phew, that was a lot of explaining right there.