I have some quarrels with two statements on your first page:

> It made me laugh to think how I could always drive my mother crazy with my relentless procrastination. Father always said it was a trait all genius children carried, and Roland Faigon happened to be an expert in the field, like every other piece of knowledge he shared.

> I would have laughed at her untruth, if I didn’t care so much about her feelings. How many times did I hear at the Institution for Higher Learning that all child geniuses were cold, arrogant and insensitive. True knowledge comes not from superiority, but from the understanding not only of how things work, but most importantly, how things feel.

But neither of these things are true, or anything like it. First, procrastination is something (in terms of “cognitive dynamics”) that P personalities are subject to, but not Js. So for example, the rather zany ENFP personality type struggles with procrastination, but not the equally brilliant but opposite-polarity INFJ (nor even, say, ENFJ).

Second, most child geniuses I’ve ever heard of (and I was one by all acknowledgements, as was my twin sister) are anything but cold, arrogant and insensitive. Again, personality type as it develops has to be taken into account, as does the poor child’s reactions to whatever influences surround him or her.

Who is responsible for these distortions of fact? The author, unwittingly (begging your pardon)? The child? Her teachers? If one of the latter, I hope you’ll deal with the issue as you go, if you haven’t already.

My own writing on Triond mostly concerns a child prodigy, an INFJ boy with great natural gifts and truly astounding supernatural potential. We meet him just as he turns 15 and watch him as he grows into young adulthood — and as he embraces step by step who and what he is and what he’s capable of doing at need. I’d be very interested in your reactions to him and to how I write about him.

My reaction to your own writing style is that I appreciate it very much. You obviously strive for both clarity and vividness of vision, although I agree with some of the others here that the text needs some refinement in the technical details of grammar and punctuation. Getting the “flow” right in the narrative will solve much of that issue.

Take Care,

Kiki Stamatiou (Joanna Maharis)