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Originally Posted by DawnEmperor
Tempting as it is, I think it's rather narrow minded to view writing you don't like as "bad writing". I'm fine if you give it constructive criticism or say why you don't like it, but "bad writing" is a concept full of vagueries.
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Actually the easiest and most obvious example what is commonly regarded as bad writing is deus ex machina (I obviously don't have to explain what that means). It's the stuff Plato and early greek philosophers were talking about in regards to poor literary construction (yes you can have what is commonly regarded as poor literary construction. If there wasn't such a baseline respected book critics just wouldn't exist.
of course there's nothing absolute but as with most things in this society it's something determined by consensus that is accepted.