Clarifying a Point I Made Earlier, Self-Published Authors' Quality of Work, and No Abuse Allowed on My Blog

Apparently, someone misunderstood what I meant in an earlier post when I said that publishers aren't concerned so much with how well a writer writes as they are in the the ability the author has to tell a good story. So let me clarify the point. When a writer joins a critique group, the group gives the author a list of rules on how to write. Such rules include things like this: don't use adverbs, don't use passive voice, don't use "to be" or "to have" verbs, etc. Okay. So that is what I'...