I was just thinking about story writing, and realized something. I don't know what makes a story good.
Anybody can make a story, it's just a chonicling of events. What makes one better or worse? There is clearly a difference of quality, but I don't know what they are doing differently.
What is it? What makes a story better?
@relee The problem is that "good" is subjective.
-F
@Felthry Ahh, you have a point there. I'd need a metric to start with even to define that.
@Felthry It might be? I think it's a quantitative question but one lacking an appropriate metric for measure. We might just not understand stories well enough, just as we don't understand ourselves well enough.
Not everybody agrees that we're something quantifiable either.
I thought if I asked, maybe people who specialize in writing would know, if there was an answer to be had.