• The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    They know how to write good. They got paid to write good. They built their lives around writing good.

    They know how to write well. They got paid to write well. They built their lives around writing well.

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      They wrote about heroes saving the world, therefore they wrote good.

      That what they wrote is so memorable to us means they wrote well.

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      They know how to write. Well, they got paid to write. Well, they built their lives around writing. Well, …

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          Well, when you get to college, they’ll teach you that writing can have intentional errors, including grammar errors, to achieve a specific effect in the mind of the reader. In your mind, the effect was “I gotta correct this guy on the internet. I won’t bother checking his comment history, I’m just gonna assume he doesn’t know what an adverb is.”