Read a really interesting blog post today (I love how easy Blogger makes it to link to things!) about someone being told by an intern at a literary agency that books with prologues were 'terrible writing.' I'm not so concerned about interns reading my queries, I trust that they've been well trained by the agents they work for to select stories their employer would be interested in. But I do find it disturbing that a literary intern (or ANYONE in publishing for that matter) would dismiss Twilight, The Swimsuit, and The Da Vinci Code as 'terrible writing.' Talk about ARROGANCE. It's fine to say that you didn't like something or it wasn't your style (although personally I liked all of those books), but to hop on a high horse and say they were terrible because they didn't appeal to you personally is ridiculous. I'd really like to know, who died and made this person Queen or King of Quality in Fiction?
Spelling and grammatical errors all over the place? Terrible writing.
Plot with huge holes that don't make any sense? Terrible writing.
Wooden characters who a reader could never relate to? Terrible writing.
A story that you just didn't connect to? Well, that's a story that you just didn't connect to.
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AJ & Charli Bite Back: I WANT TO BE A TERRIBLE WRITER, SERIOUSLY.: "I jumped on the query super highway. I went blazing, speeding, and didn't wear a seat belt. Not only was I not securely fastened but I didn'..."
