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slashxmistress ([personal profile] slashxmistress) wrote2009-03-03 09:44 am
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Thinky- what makes fic well written?

How do you decide that a fic is "well-written"?

I see this all the time in seek comms and elsewhere- asking for "well-written" fics and well - that just seems so generic and unspecific to me. (and actually kind of pretentious too tbqh)

Is it 'well-written' because you like it? If you don't like it does that make it not well -written?

What quantifies something as well- written? Good grammar? no typos? Long, pretentious, character studies?

I judge a fic by if I enjoy it , if it makes me think , or feel (and yes horny is a feeling :P if it's hot that totally counts), but some of my very, very favorites are probably not that "well-written" in the English major kind of way. Does that matter? Not to me.

[identity profile] tuesdaysgone.livejournal.com 2009-03-03 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
So neglecting to get a good beta/ check that it's edited well yourself is in a way a form of bad writing.

Definitely. If it's my name on the finished product, I want to make sure that what I'm presenting is as good as it's going to get, in every way possible. It's worth the extra time, to me.