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In response to "People on mastodon criticizing the writing in Hillary Clinton's novel, and I'm sitting here thinking ..." by Beryllium

she could write like Hemingway and people on social media would tell her she sucked. -- nm

Posted by mafic Nov 29 '22, 21:08

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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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