What Makes a Good Writer? - Comments

Grammar is super important. I hate getting stuck in a sentence because people can't tell the difference between ''there/their/they're'' or something like that.
But the plot is important too. If it gets too boring, I tend to give up and search for something new.
What else?... Uhm, yeah, the lead character must have feelings. I don't like it when you never hear about one's feelings or thoughts, and it's all moving too fast and you're thinking: 'Jeez, your boyfriend just got killed by a mob of gansters who are after you, you lost your baby and still you forgot about it?' Well, that was fictional, but you get the point :)

what makes a good writer- one of the most important qualitites- is making the reader feel what the character in the story is feeling- evoking emotion in the reader.

I like it when a writer can explain exactly what they mean. If the write something, and I only half understand because it only makes sense to them, I probably won't carry on the story.

v.: Despite all the problems it had (not a fan, due to content), it was written perfectly, considering how easy it was for readers (girls?) to imagine they were in Bella's place, due to description in both physical and emotional aspects. I think it was a bad story with a lot of holes, but the style was easy for people to connect to.

Subject matter; sympathetic characters; grammar... all of it plays a part, but Mibba is a very special case. Not always in a good way. =P

True. Even so, there are many stories out there with the same grammer level, yet one is more popular than the other. I guess I'm just trying to find out what people like about a certain story. Is it the way the author describes things or the way the characters are presented. I'm still trying to figure out how Twilight got so popular >.> (no offense to Twilight fans)

I can't really say. I've read stories that didn't have any sentence struture what so ever and they were good, but I've read gramatical correct stories with no purpose. It just depends.

Of course grammar and all that stuff matters... but to me it's about the feelings.

I really can't read a story which I struggle to, well, read. It just irks me if I have to stop and think of what the writer was trying to type and it stops me from getting into the plot if I have to stop and go "Wait, did he/she mean...?"

It doesn't make a person a good writer if their grammar is perfect, it just really does help.

A grasp on grammar does not a good writer make. It's still possible to be horrible with the written word, despite knowing all the rules of tech. writin g.

It's hard to say - depending on the writer, really. If I can't understand it due to lack of editing, that's one thing - but, I'm usually more interested in a plot and characters, even if they are a few grammar issues.

Amusingly enough, people who consider themselves experts in grammar/spelling tend to ignore that, claiming "It's their own style, because it's art and there is now right or wrong way".