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iansales · 26th November 2007, 02:36 PM

Quality isn't competence or mediocrity. Quality is excelling expectation.

There are also a series of objective yardsticks that can be used - chiefly to do with use of language, or techniques of story-telling. An idiot plot does not lead to a quality story. A writer with a vocabulary of 500 words does not lead to a quality story. A style of prose that relies on cliches rather than original turns of phrase does not lead to a quality story.

26th November 2007, 02:36 PM	#199 (permalink)
iansales Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Yorkshire Posts: 1,793	Re: Is worldbuilding pointless? Quality isn't competence or mediocrity. Quality is excelling expectation. There are also a series of objective yardsticks that can be used - chiefly to do with use of language, or techniques of story-telling. An idiot plot does not lead to a quality story. A writer with a vocabulary of 500 words does not lead to a quality story. A style of prose that relies on cliches rather than original turns of phrase does not lead to a quality story.