To be honest, you can be pretty damn awful as a writer and still become successful if you write what people want to hear. Lots of terrible books sell really wel

To be honest, you can be pretty damn awful as a writer and still become successful if you write what people want to hear. Lots of terrible books sell really well because they were well marketed and offered people a sort of escapism that they wanted at any cost. And if you want a non book example, well just look at many news sites. From those fake news pages complained about in the election to all matter of niche ones and even mainstream publications, there are quite a few utterly terrible stories that have become hugely popular simply because they published at the right time and got the interest of an audience who wanted to hear exactly that.