12/24/2025
I’m so torn about this, because in general, everything I write for my books and articles comes in with an average Flesch reading ease score of about 30. This means the I consistently write at, not just a college grade level, but on the more difficult-to-read grad-school-end of a college reading level.
While, I know that I have a very unique and instantly recognizable writing style, in the ways that I consistently use compound sentences, six to seven sentence paragraphs, and how I almost always deliver my examples and lists of objects in threes and multiples of three, without even being intentional about it, nearly every damn time.
So, this is not AI writing my books fur me or embellishing the way I delve into and convey my ideas in my more nuanced, and ultimately more wordy, writing style that I have used for professional writing since I was in English composition 102 in college, and Daren Blaze was thankfully helping to guide this stereotypically messy artist-type version of me in training myself to think and write in more firmly organized, well-thought-out, and big-picture-minded structured ways. Ever since I rigorously trained myself to contemplate, express, and formally deliver myself this way all throughout my time at Kutztown University, a creative and professional metamorphosis that I believe, may be irreversible at thus point. This brings me to my dilemma here.
Should I deliberately begin training myself to write at a lower grade level to boost my SEO optimization, and statistically reach a larger audience? I feel like that is only feeding into the “dumbing-down” of our current culture from an academic perspective. Yet at the same time, Inclusivity, Empathy, and Open Expression are three of my nine main personal and professional core values, which I literally do my very best to adhere to, in everything that I do, especially when it comes to business practices.
So, I’m not sure what to think of this subject at the moment, quite honestly. Perhaps, I could begin writing half my articles with my usual wordy and deliberately particular and precise grad-school reading level writing style, and write the other half of every article for my new website the way that most of you friends of mine know me for, which is to say write like a bat out if hell as in my hurried text messages, barely legible, heavily littered with typos, and half-finished thoughts, for the sake of answering in a timely snd quick fashion?
That would be funny to see in action though- bad for business, yet still funny to witness. What do you think about this topic? If you are a writer, author, or are any other form of content creator who also faces the challenges that this dilemma brings to the dinner table, then I would really like your two cents from your own perspective on the matter, please. Let me know either in the comments below if h direct message.
Thanks for letting me write it all out to get it off my chest, and thank you for your attention and consideration,
-Joseph
When studying languages a long, long time ago, I learned about the prescriptive vs. descriptive approach to grammar and style and I have applied this dichotomy to help me understand aspects of morality, politics, ethics, even animal behaviour.
