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What the fuck is good writing /lit/? What the FUCK is good writing?

>> No.16286731

I think good writing is whatever can capture your mind and transport you outside of your daily experiences. If you're reading a book and you're so engrossed that you forget you're reading, that's good writing.

>> No.16286734

>>16286707
Good writing is articulate and straight to the point.

>> No.16286744
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16286744

Writing you like
Writing you’ll keep liking, because it’s quality, and you go back to it every once in a while.
Writing that makes you feel BETTER, not depressed.

>> No.16286763

>>16286731
Good writing can also connect to to you on a personal level. Good need not be mere escapism, but personal edification.

>>16286734
Or flowery, metaphorical, byzantine even. Of that’s what you’re into.

>> No.16286768

>>16286731
>>16286734
>>16286744

What makes Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Tolstoy better than Donna Tartt, Margaret Atwood, G R.R. Martin et cetera?

>> No.16286800

>>16286768
Nothing. If you prefer the latter group to the former, that's what is good writing for you

>> No.16286809

>>16286800
I need more than relativism. There has to be some standard.

>> No.16286813

>>16286744
Bloomer Butterfly is a nice change of pace :)

>> No.16286819

>>16286809
You live in a relativistic universe. The is no definitive standard.

>> No.16286848

Good writing is above all original. Avoiding metaphors is an artform. Anything that can both provoke imagination, paint a clear picture without relying on dead kliches is good writing imo.

>> No.16286852

>>16286731
>>16286734
>>16286744
>>16286800
>>16286813

Have ye been successful, anons?

>> No.16287290

There are two forms of good writing. The Augustan and the Neo-Romantic.

>> No.16287419

>>16286848
>Good writing is above all original.
Or in the very least taking the unoriginal and making it a interesting experience.
Almost everything is based off of something else or steals from them.

>> No.16287979

Aren't you ever overwhelmed by the thousands of writers who achieve good writing, but never immortality through writing? Is the the world not over-saturated with English writers?

>> No.16287992

>>16287979
>but never immortality through writing?
Was that ever the goal, seems more of a ideology.
To achieve steady income and a appreciative following should be your goal.

>> No.16288005

>>16287979
That's why I'm planning to become a Basque and Latin writer. Gotta learn Basque and Latin before that though.

>> No.16288060

>>16286809
Stop asking others for it then. If you're going to complain about relativism, you should at least have the balls to actually know what you want.