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I didn't say that. I'm following your writing because it is largely good, reflects a lot of talent - but I wrote today because I saw in your piece what I often see in my own - call it lazy writing, failure to proof and polish, being distracted and 'not finishing' the job. I fail on that front more often than I can to admit, but I'm regularly more vigilant and self-critical. If I didn't feel you were worth it, I wouldn't have invested the time to write, to read, to await your next piece.

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I can see from your writing that you know to write, but do re-write?

Do you edit?

Do you spell-check?

Do you read what you write?

If I (and others too, because I am not your only subscriber), am giving your writing the investment of my time, it would be good to know whether you can write better than this piece.

Aside from that, what is my takeaway message supposed to be here?

How am I to understand your point or your point of view here, if it isn't clear.

Please try to do better, and I'll try to make the time to read you - but, seriously, you need to do better than this if you expect my time, and far better if you expect me to subscribe and pay you?

Cheers,

Mark

p.s. I've become a Succession fan as well. The acting does not always measure up to the writing, and maybe I'm looking for 'Murdoch insights' that aren't intended to be there. I expect, as Hollywood and streaming world executives are prone to do, another season will be driven by viewer popularity, 'when will the writer's strike end', and available of the key actors. I'd like to see the writers stretch to 'what might be' for the characters and the family.

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