Tessa Schlesinger
2 min readOct 18, 2022

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Jessica Wildfire is NOT a target, and she has never been a target. What is increasingly coming across is that she feels quite entitled to have more than she has.

She wants to be paid more for her college job (if she is, indeed, a college professor). She feels entitled to have a large readership, and when the algorithm changes to be more accurate into what people are reading, she resents it.

Her writing follows a certain formula - referring to the supposed hardship in her own life, which she knows reflects the hardship in other people's lives. This makes her readers relate to her and sympathize with her, essentially because she is commiserating with them. It's an old technique. It gets boring, though. I, personally, don't have time for people who feel so entitled that they think they should be paid more for their writing. I feel privileged and lucky to be earning anything at all from mine.

As I earn in a certain category,f and as I've been a fulltime writer for a quarter of a century, and prior to that writing part time, and published since the early 60s, I have a certain understanding of the industry.

Ms Fletcher has 118,000 followers. If she has a 10% readership, she has 11,000 readers. That would mean she is earning at good $10,000 a month, and put together with a college salary with her particular claimed status, even at a low grade college, she would be bringing home at least $15,000 a month. That is, if all her claims are true, of course.

if she doesn't have that degree of readership, then she obviously needs to look at her writing. it just means that people get tired her constant repetitive writing, or they simply don't agree with her.

The fact that she loses readership does not mean that she is targeted. Every writer goes through periods where people read them and where people don't. |It's the way the profession works. Writers come and go.

As for my being arrogant, I suggest you google the word. Being aware of my own talents (acknowledged talents and abilities) does not mean one is arrogant.

You, on the other hand, have, from the beginning, evidenced passive aggression. I'm the wrong person to attack. i give as good as I get.

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