Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readJul 26, 2022

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No offence meant, but if you want me to read you, you have to write AP style or Chicago manual.

That means you write the way journalists and magazine feature articles are laid out.

You have subtitles for every change in direction, so that the reader can see where you are going without having to read the entire thing.

Huge blocks of text are a turn off to any reader. That's why newspapers and magazines use subtitles. No block of text is more than three or four paragraphs.

Next, I don't want to read things with part 1, part 2, or part 3. I want a beginning, a middle, and an end. I won't even read book series.

The other thing is you need to make your pieces visually pleasing. Believe it or not, that is why newspapers, publishers, and magazines have designers. Although people are reading, they don't want to read disordered text. The eye doesn't do well with it.

Hope that helps. A lot of people on this site don't like me telling them what['s wrong with their writing, so I get a lot of flack. Too bad, I've been published for 60 years - they haven't.

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