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Q&A what are some specific criteria for evaluating a piece of fiction that can be used repeatedly?

Can you provide list of specific items you use to evaluate whether or not a piece of fiction is good or bad? For example, if you really had to explain why a piece of fiction were terrible what cri...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by raddevus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T05:19:04Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar raddevus‭ · 2019-12-08T05:19:04Z (over 4 years ago)
Can you provide list of specific items you use to evaluate whether or not a piece of fiction is good or bad?

For example, if you really had to explain why a piece of fiction were terrible what criteria might you use to analyze it in order to inform the writer without (blatantly) hurting her feelings?

Suppose you had something like the following excerpt and you had to evaluate it.

> She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found.  
> There was no one else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all, now that the New Republic stood on the verge of implosion, of destruction, of complete collapse.
> 
> They had thought that with the fall of the Empire it would all be so easy. That people would understand the need for patience, that time would be required to rebuild that which the Empire had taken away.Ψ

_Ψ Star Wars: The Force Awakens (page 1)_

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2016-06-06T19:08:40Z (almost 8 years ago)
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