[ SECRET POST #6699 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6699 ⌋

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(Great British Bake Off)



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12. [SPOILERS for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33]





















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The thing with "bad writing" is that it's highly subjective most of the time. Yes, objectively, bad writing exists but it is used so much as a shorthand for "I didn't like it" that it's basically meaningless in fandom discourse.

Claiming that something isn't a "bug" because someone loves OTT melodrama isn't very rational.
Nor is saying it IS a bug because someone really hates it. That's the point. Just because a genre has a common trope that you dislike doesn't mean the whole genre sucks. It just means it's not for you.

[(Anonymous)]

Does objectively bad writing exist? Can it? If every piece of writing has someone out there who likes it, and someone who dislikes it; and the subjective experience of a piece's quality hinges on whether someone likes it, then isn't all writing both good and bad?

Now, you may say your whole point is that whether someone likes a piece has nothing to do with whether it's good or bad. But if writing quality is highly subjective most of the time; and if finding fault in the writing style of a genre just means that it's "not for you," then there's really nothing left to judge it by. In the end, it comes down purely to "did you like it or not?"

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I'd say yes, objectively bad writing exists. Things like major plot holes and other glaring continuity errors, overuse of epithets, sudden character changes that makes no sense and are never explained... but yes, in general, a lot of bad writing/good writing comes down to personal taste (and also things like cultural differences in storytelling).