Anyone up for quite a bit of reading? ?

I haven't read your words but I would like to encourage you to continue writing your story and editing and publishing it in the end...for you. As an author you express your ideas through words and the reader is to interpret it from there. If you beleive in what it is that you write, than that is the purpose of writing. The reader must appreciate it in the end, or not. People's opinions vary, but your stance on what you write should not. Express yourself and continue to write so that you will have accomplished your own goal and expectations instead of the hit and miss of trying to gain others ideals. Good luck, hun!