Thinky- what makes fic well written?

[slashxmistress]

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.

Comments

[lastchanceache.livejournal.com]

A journal is exactly that a journal, a fanfiction is a story, it's something you've produced, not just your train of thought.
We see fanfiction writers all the time, who are amazing writers and get given comments telling them that they should be authors, why shouldn't everyone live up to that standard?
But, yeah. I get it, yeah, I get it, that fanfiction is just that, writing is fun, sure here's your favourite tv show, film, book, band, continue to the story, go for it. I just don't read anything that feels half-heartedly nothing more than 'fun'.
Sometimes I feel that if you're writing fanfiction, it's because you like writing. You want to get better, why not aspire to turn your fanfiction into art.

[slashxmistress.livejournal.com]

why shouldn't everyone live up to that standard?
because it's not a competition

if you're writing fanfiction, it's because you like writing. You want to get better, why not aspire to turn your fanfiction into art.

A lot of writers feel that way, they really do . But a lot of them don't.They just see it as a way to fantasize out loud or to share lulz and I don't think we have a right to judge them for that.
We definitely have a right to scroll right past though :D

[lastchanceache.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not implying that it is, or should be, I don't think that's the point of it at all. Just from a personal point of view, I do.

I don't think I'm judging, I'm just expressing what I see as 'well-written' and like you say, stuff that isn;'t I'm just going to scroll on by.