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Originally Posted by Fat Abe
3. Poor writing + Interesting Plot = Average bestseller
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Well, there's poor writing and poor writing. Really poor writing won't make the bestseller list (and good writing can). The thing that makes a book a bestseller, besides the interesting plot, is a style of writing that is really easy to read; usually it's a style that propels you through the book quickly and unless you are very attentive to such things, the problems are only obvious in retrospect. This style of writing can be extraordinarly good, average, or poor, but you can trust that it won't be boring.