Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

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

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

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.

The most hilarious was when he tried to do this on a cook book (because he had hosted several dinner parties the author had catered) and was talked out of putting his name on it. Instead he put a fake name on the cover as coauthor and implied it was him using an alias.

That’s beautiful ... a pen name used on a book he had no role in writing