I think it's the writer's romanticized fanboy vision, insertion of himself and his florid show-off storytelling that many people find troublesome. good writing says: "look at this world." bad writing screams: "look at me!" so loudly that it clouds out the world. i think this quote from this excellent critique says it best:
I think it's the writer's romanticized fanboy vision, insertion of himself and his florid show-off storytelling that many people find troublesome. good writing says: "look at this world." bad writing screams: "look at me!" so loudly that it clouds out the world. i think this quote from this excellent critique says it best:
"I am begging someone, anyone, to publish a normal narrative of Augusta Britt's life. Simply write and edit a story about her, in a normal fashion, and publish it. Do not make her into a doomed teen cowpoke, or a doomed adult cowpoke's doomed teen mate; do not refract her through your own thoughts about the nature of evil or whatever; do not make her perfectly sufficient life story alternate paragraphs with your efforts to conjure a description of weather that will cause a reader to wonder whether you have ever seen any. Do not add to the story any mentions—not even one! I'm watching your ass!—of "that artistic wiggle room between frisson and fission," which is gibberish.
Just publish a story about her! And her life! And what she thinks about it! It seems like a pretty good story!"
I think it's the writer's romanticized fanboy vision, insertion of himself and his florid show-off storytelling that many people find troublesome. good writing says: "look at this world." bad writing screams: "look at me!" so loudly that it clouds out the world. i think this quote from this excellent critique says it best:
https://defector.com/can-someone-please-write-normally-about-this-fascinating-woman
"I am begging someone, anyone, to publish a normal narrative of Augusta Britt's life. Simply write and edit a story about her, in a normal fashion, and publish it. Do not make her into a doomed teen cowpoke, or a doomed adult cowpoke's doomed teen mate; do not refract her through your own thoughts about the nature of evil or whatever; do not make her perfectly sufficient life story alternate paragraphs with your efforts to conjure a description of weather that will cause a reader to wonder whether you have ever seen any. Do not add to the story any mentions—not even one! I'm watching your ass!—of "that artistic wiggle room between frisson and fission," which is gibberish.
Just publish a story about her! And her life! And what she thinks about it! It seems like a pretty good story!"