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People on mastodon criticizing the writing in Hillary Clinton's novel, and I'm sitting here thinking ...

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Nov 29 '22, 21:07

"but this sounds like how I write".

Shit.

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Is this State of Terror with Louise Penny or does she have something new? -- nm - crash davis Nov 29, 21:22 2
- It is. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 29, 21:29 1
  - I've read all three Clinton thrillers, that one and Bill Clinton/James Patterson's The President Is Missing & The President's Daughter. I'd rank them TPD, SoT, TPIM -- nm* - crash davis Nov 29, 21:33
Too many cliffhangers? -- nm - Max Nov 29, 21:20 2
- Pfft. If there's one thing I never bother with ... - Beryllium Nov 29, 21:31 1
  - L3 -- nm - Max Nov 29, 21:40
she could write like Hemingway and people on social media would tell her she sucked. -- nm - mafic Nov 29, 21:08 14
- This ain't hemingway. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 29, 21:09 [mastodon] 13
  - little on the nose, Hill-dog. -- nm - mafic Nov 29, 21:28 3
    - The best part is when spoilers - crash davis Nov 29, 21:31 2
      - ... uh. Did it elaborate on that, with any narrowing of the scope of that descriptor? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 29, 21:32 1
        
        Nope -- nm - crash davis Nov 29, 21:35
  - it’s not that far from cormac mccarthy, heh. (that’s not such a good thing to me.) it speaks to me more as needing a good editor, one that’s brave - i.b! Nov 29, 21:21 2
    - I’ve had this argument with folks before. As someone who only had beta readers and not an actual editor, I implore any writer to get one. A good one. - Qale Nov 29, 22:24
    - That is 100% what it feels like - under-editing. I'll be throwing up a blog post in a few minutes that has the same problem. :) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 29, 21:30
  - (every celebrity novel is ghostwritten) -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 29, 21:17 5
    - I always wonder how much of this is the fame-o really wanting to write a book vs. "you can make a couple million by slapping your name on this." -- nm - mafic Nov 29, 22:09 1
      - my guess would be most of the time it's their agency packaging them with another actual novelist (usually in the same agency) -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 30, 01:09
    - this one gives cover co-credit to a writer. -- nm - i.b! Nov 29, 21:24
    - That looks more voice-to-text written, with no final editing. -- nm - Max Nov 29, 21:22 1
      - It's very first draft, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 29, 21:30

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