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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
If someone told me at a party that they were an author, an artist or a musician, all I know is that they write books, create art or make music. It doesn't imply that they write good books, .
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Correct. Well sort of. But let me split hairs like so many are doing here. They don't write books at all, they write stories.
They tell a story. The story could be good to one reader while another thinks it is not so good, for many reasons. Someone here commented on Dan Brown and another commented on JK Rowling. They may not be wordsmiths but they tell a good story, assuming that it's your cup of tea.
It is the standard of writing that I have a gripe with, not what is written. After all it has been said that there are only seven separate stories to be told and every plot will fall within one of those seven. ie boy meets girl.
Every one and every thing needs boundaries and so do people writing 'stuff' for other people to read, uploading what you think will be the new Raymond Chandler might please your mum, but how will you be sure it's nothing more than that before you take peoples money.