I also like it when a writer who is just not good at writing, who cannot really file coherent drafts or craft simple sentences on any kind of timeline, hits it big with some editorially-manipulated hot take and thereafter becomes a "big name" author
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Believe me, those of us who edit or ghostwrite for money have seen how bad some of this is, how incoherent some of the emails are...and I don't care, I always do whatever I need to do for money. But why "write" if after decades of training yr writing is so bad? Do something else
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This reminds me of the publisher I used to work for who--based on his emails--composed at a third grade level (he had inherited the company from his dad), but who had himself credited as the coauthor of several books just so he could tell people he was really a writer at heart.
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That's a great hustle ... who reads past the byline? May as well stick a "Ph.D." after the name too. Why not?
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