minus-squareMakanlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 years agoIn the writing community (like, fictional authors and people like that) you see a lot of this rhetoric about what counts as good writing and what-not.
minus-square☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭Alinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 years agoAs in, they act like there’s some objectively “good” writing?
minus-squareMakanlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 years agoYeah. Not cultural or anything, just an “objective” and “universal” standard throughout time and space.
minus-square☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭Alinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 years agothe only thing I would argue is almost objectively good is that the writing should be legible (not necessarily “proper” grammar, just possible to decipher) and there are probably some exceptions to that, too
In the writing community (like, fictional authors and people like that) you see a lot of this rhetoric about what counts as good writing and what-not.
As in, they act like there’s some objectively “good” writing?
Yeah. Not cultural or anything, just an “objective” and “universal” standard throughout time and space.
the only thing I would argue is almost objectively good is that the writing should be legible (not necessarily “proper” grammar, just possible to decipher)
and there are probably some exceptions to that, too
Yeah, gotcha