As Jen pointed out above- there's a difference between good writing and good story!
Yes, definitely! I think for me, and judging by the cries for good writing a lot of others, the problem is that bad writing just distracts from the story no matter how brilliant it is. If it throws me out the story too much I always hit the backbutton.
Or sometimes, with some of the fic I almost get the impression that the writing is getting in the way of a story that could essentially be awesome. Like say, someone is trying to write Brendon/Ryan and you can tell from the summary and plot etc. that Brendon's supposed to be a good boyfriend and it's supposed to be happy and angst-free, but the writing is bad and actually makes him come off as a raging psycho.
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Date: 2009-03-03 05:11 pm (UTC)Yes, definitely! I think for me, and judging by the cries for good writing a lot of others, the problem is that bad writing just distracts from the story no matter how brilliant it is. If it throws me out the story too much I always hit the backbutton.
Or sometimes, with some of the fic I almost get the impression that the writing is getting in the way of a story that could essentially be awesome. Like say, someone is trying to write Brendon/Ryan and you can tell from the summary and plot etc. that Brendon's supposed to be a good boyfriend and it's supposed to be happy and angst-free, but the writing is bad and actually makes him come off as a raging psycho.