I know you've had a zillion comments on this already but I thought I'd wade in with my opinion. Well-written to me simply means that the story sucks me in, that I get lost in the story, that I feel what the characters are feeling. While I prefer not to have to read typos and whatnot, that doesn't decide whether a story is well-written or not, to me at least. I guess I take 'written' to mean content, rather than technical aspects of writing (spelling, grammar etc).
Personally, I hate when people ask for 'well-written' fic recs, or if they say 'these are the only well-written fics I've read in x fandom' because it's so subjective- what you consider well-written I may not and vice versa.
I'm not sure if that makes sense- it's late here, but I thought it was interesting so many people seemed to focus on technical errors stopping something from being well-written and thought I'd ramble about my completely differing opinion. :)
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Date: 2009-03-03 10:57 pm (UTC)Personally, I hate when people ask for 'well-written' fic recs, or if they say 'these are the only well-written fics I've read in x fandom' because it's so subjective- what you consider well-written I may not and vice versa.
I'm not sure if that makes sense- it's late here, but I thought it was interesting so many people seemed to focus on technical errors stopping something from being well-written and thought I'd ramble about my completely differing opinion. :)