Tolkien, in his essay on fairy stories, says that children's stories should perhaps allow space for growth as children's clothes do. Incredibly depressing to see people rejecting the idea that even stories for adults shouldn't ever do that
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"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything
Find myself mentioning Tolkien from time to time on here and the point is not to say that he was a genius but to point out that if your ideas haven't progressed further than those of a conservative author of the mid-20thC who was born in the 19th then it might be worth looking at yourself