What makes a good writer different from a bad one?

February 2, 2007 4:39am CST
Is it the way they use language? What is there in the language of a good writer that distinguishes them from a bad writer? What makes a writer good? Do you think you're a good writer? Who are your favourite writers, and what do you like about them?
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• United States
4 Feb 07
One of my favorite authors writes basically the same story every time just with different twists. She has a whole town of people she writes about. Yet while I love her books, some of them are a bit hard to read because I always end up thinking "again?". And I can see much drastic improvement from the novels she writes now from the ones she started with.