I just shockingly came across some old writings of mine

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9. Save for posterity

You're probably a better writer and those are more interesting than some of the top 10 bestsellers. I'm reading one from about 2011. This is by a major major author. I'm amazed at how the characters are so brilliant - "brilliant" - and have the most astute observations, but the reader has to think twice about it and it's still not precise, and despite the top of the world elites in the book it is all accomplished with prose pitched at a 9th grade reading level. The exposition is pedantically slow. THIS sells tens of millions?

I think I'm going to write. It's not how the author writes, it's the audience it's pitched at. The demographics.