Last night, during dinner, I realized one very important thing about writing.
Great writing is about great characters. You may be the best shower, (as in show, not tell, not the bathing kind), the best grammarian, the best with word play, but if your characters are not good, your writing will fall flat!
You need to create characters that people can relate with, empathize with. Your readers should get worried if the character gets into trouble. The moods of the character should reflect in the moods of the reader. Then and then only, will your writing be good writing.
Not that this is new information, but I got so involved in correcting my adverbs and activating my passives, that I could have stopped paying attention to this basic factor.
I can always correct my adverbs and correct my tenses, but if my characters are not good enough, I wont have to!
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