Thinky- what makes fic well written?
Mar. 3rd, 2009 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slashxmistressHow 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-03-04 11:01 am (UTC)yes, indeed, i agree about this one too ;) we don't all like the same things that's why in reccing it's hard to make someone happy.
anyway i still think you're magic, every time I asked for anything you helped me haha, not only finding everything, but fics i loved as well... maybe our minds work in the same way lol!