In which I am personally offended by terrible writing

Overall, I find Stephenie Meyer's writing style (if it can even be called that) more offensive than anything else about her books because I feel like Meyer is actively insulting her readers by writing like this, by not bothering with grammar, coherency, or the most basic research. 

 

I recognize a lot of stuff in Meyer's writing that's common in first drafts. Lots of sighing and chuckling and speech tags in general, lots of adverbs, lots of passive voice, lots of repetition, lots of unclear references. But most of us care enough to go back and fix that stuff because we realize that writing is work and that we are not perfect. Meyer's sheer arrogance grosses me out. 
 

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