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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Actually you got that backwards. Everything tends towards chaos, but chaos is bad for society as a whole, so typically society fights for order. But I guess that is another thread...
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Yep the butterfly effect is based on chaos isn't it? A butterfly flaps its wings in Japan and off the coast of the U.S. several days later there is a storm or not depending on whatever the conditions were at the time the butterfly flapped its wings. It's chaos theory. Also part of physics too I think. The Uncertainty principle and so forth. In any case coming up with a standard quality for any two books (even by the same author) is (IMO) a hopeless task. Author's being human beings are subjected to life's ups and downs like everyone else and so their work quality may be uneven even within one book much less several. And editing only can smooth out so much I think because even then life can throw a curve at someone and cause the editing to have quirks in it. Plus everyone has their own bias as to what is good and bad writing so what I may think is a great story you may only find to be so-so and vice versa. When Walt Disney makes an animated movie the animators have to standardize their styles so that the characters look the same throughout the movie but even then I wager they still leave something of themselves behind in the drawings. I'm not sure how such a thing could be applied to writing.