As in anything else in life, writing can be graded on a curve: a small percentage of writing is great, most writing is somewhere in the center of the curve (varying from good to better to excellent) and another small percentage is awful. I cannot waste more than a few minutes on awful but the search for excellent is a lot of fun.
It's so hard to tell what impresses me as excellent writing. Apart from good grammar and good sentence structure, the impression of excellent writing is a feeling. Either a book draws me in or it does not. It's quite simple. Excellent writing is absorbing. It blocks out the world as I forget about time and just keep reading and turning pages. I can't wait to read more.
Amazingly, not all excellent writers are just born that way. Writing is a craft that can be honed and perfected with practice and with a willingness to accept criticism. Arrogance has no place here. No one can be an excellent surgeon, or an excellent lawyer, or an excellent electrician or an excellent anything else without training and practice.
Very rarely, of course, does one encounter great writing (or a great surgeon) but excellent writing (and any other amazing profession) does happen and it's such a joy to find that special one.
I'm always on the hunt for fabulous books.
Maybe one day you will be that next amazing author.
Denise
www.inktreemarketing.com
www.publishacookbook.com
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