Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readMar 26, 2021

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James Patterson is an outstanding storyteller, and his work is grammatical. I definitely enjoyed some of his work, but I gave up reading him for the same reason I gave up reading other authors. I am sick and tired of detectives, murders, and continuous characters (series). I read three or four Alex Cross books, then realized that they were continuous, and if I didn't read them in consecutive order, I missed out on a background story.

Clive Cussler is another outstanding storyteller, but write, um? His son has a better voice than he has.

Hemmingway is a brilliant writer, but I was never much into his stories so much as into his language. I have read and reread some of his sentences for 15 minutes looking at the way they were constructed.

However, this is not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about people who are semiliterate, who have no voice and no rhythm in their writing, and who speak complete and utter nonsense. They aren't telling well plotted stories. They are repeating endlessly what they hear from other wannabe writers.

They also don't know the difference between copywriting / content writing and what we used to call writing in the old days.

Commercial writing was never well thought of. Now people put it into the same category as creative writing. It's not. More than anything else, I find it unethical. It is prone to lies and misinformation.

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