OMG yes. I didn't say this in the post, but a lot of the fics I really love to read are not what I would necessarily consider the best writing. They're melodramatic and full of plot contrivances or what have you. But then I have to really stop and think because this fic made me cry or it turned me on or it made me laugh. It made me feel something and so what is good writing anyway? Something with an elegant metaphor or something that makes people feel?

And then I realize that one of the reasons I don't write those stories is because I have this standard of what makes good writing that suddenly seems patently ridiculous.

Am I making any sense here? I feel like I'm sort of flapping my arms about and spewing nonsense. LOL