#most of this stuff is either poorly written trend hopping YA romantasy that's been repackaged for adults with 6th grade reading levels or

[lobotomyladylives]

execution is far more important (and so much harder) than just having a good premise, so many writers think that their ideas will carry their work when that's literally just the jumping off point & counts for nothing if you can't actually do it justice. but unfortunately the publishing industry is now reinforcing these people's delusions by gleefully churning out grotesque gimmicky garbage that is the literary equivalent of fast food & not even good hot fresh fast food but like cold stale mcdonald's nuggets that you scrounged out of a dumpster behind a library. it's all marketed based on the tropes and fanfic tags and the editors clearly don't give enough of a shit to actually read the pathetic novels they're greenlighting before they go and spew them all over the digitally lobotomized borderline illiterate masses . booktok is smallpox. booktok is all 4 horsemen of the apocalypse . booktok killed my grandma

#it does make me feel much more confident in my ability to get published. #these people are not even good writers by fanfic standards. it's unreal how low the bar is rn #most of this stuff is either poorly written trend hopping YA romantasy that's been repackaged for adults with 6th grade reading levels or #smut novels that are worse than the average ao3 fic #i feel like im going insane sometimes bc of how fundamentally inept many published & inexplicably succesful authors are #they can't develop complex characters. they can't pace their plot correctly. their prose sucks. their dialogue is ridiculous. #well. if nothing else its good for my ego