I’ve seen many bloggers say that what draws them to certain books or authors is good writing, and what causes them to stop reading a certain book or author is bad writing. What constitutes good writing and bad writing to you?
That is subjective. But I find that stilted dialogue is a problem. I need it to be natural, more or less how people actually speak. I can take thin plots and weak storylines, but give me bad and stilted dialogue, the book goes down. I once started to read a book that had a dialect. It was some southern (USA) country, post-slavery dialect. Good grief, I read maybe 10 pages of it, and gave up. I can't tell you if it was stilted, because I had no idea what was being said!!
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It's time like those that I find myself wondering if the audio book would be better.
I recently read Terry Pratchett's latest Tiffany Aching novel and found a similar issue. It really took me out of the book.
Excellent answer. :)
Here’s mine: http://wp.me/sFyoG-1437
I can't get into dialect books either..
BTT: Good or Bad
Another great point, I totally agree.
That is definitely a great point.
Good writing is not boring, and peaks your interest, throughout the book.
Bad writing is when a book doesn't have substance & doesn't appeal to the reader in many ways.
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