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What makes a story “well written”?
What actually makes a story “well written” to you? I’ll read something that’s objectively kinda messy, but something about it still allures me and I rate it high, even when other people write it off as bad. So what’s your bar for well written? And if a story isn’t well written, why does it still pull you in anyway?
There's a buddhist saying "the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon". Maybe that's what a well written story does: it never gives you the whole truth, only enough to make you look for it.
You see, there's something alluring to a story we read and makes us recognize ourselves in people who never existed. They hold up a mirror without making ...... 6 reply
