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What is good writing?

>> No.14905707

A good piece will make my brain feel like I do when I listen to good music. A blend of intriguing diction and a story that is relatable on some level

>> No.14905709

Erotica for Teenage girls

>> No.14905721

>>14905189
Anything that can explain the authors ideas clearly and in a way people can understand without much further exploration. Or something that successfully makes you feel the way the author intended.

>> No.14905744

wen the words r right

>> No.14905941

>>14905189
When musical words conjure up musical ideas in your head.

>> No.14905991

>>14905189
something that makes me wish i wrote it

>> No.14906014

>>14905189
Simple, direct, honest. Stylized, but not because they have a style. Rather, because they speak as clearly as they can, and their natural, actual, honest voice speaks through.

>> No.14906015
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14906015

When every word is at home,
Taking its place to support the others,
The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
An easy commerce of the old and the new,
The common word exact without vulgarity,
The formal word precise but not pedantic,
The complete consort dancing together.
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph.

>> No.14906037

>>14905189
Good writing illuminates the mind, imparts spiritual wisdom and truth, inspires the soul, and helps one in striving for the highest ideals and values.

>> No.14906059

>>14905189
when the words are chosen carefully and strung together in just such a way as to smoothly and ornately deliver the underlying ideas to the reader.
Taking care to emphasize the denser areas of meaning, and harmonizing the words according to all their aspects: etymology, morphology, meaning, sound, and orthography.
Ensuring that the parts reflect the whole, and the whole reflects the parts. Creating a whole which is much larger than immediately perceived, and allowing the reader to sublimate themself by the contemplation if it's many-faceted beauty.

>> No.14906072

>>14905189
The cab driver that tells you an amusing story, tells you how to get where you want to go, takes you most of the way there, and scares the daylight out of you with his driving on the way; you are then happy to tip generously and step out of the vehicle holding life a little dearer than before.

>> No.14906380

>>14905991
The only real answer

>> No.14906494

>>14906015
This, but less