What’s more important: Good writing? Or a good story?
(Of course, a book should have BOTH, but…)
Wow, That's a tough one.
I guess I would go with story. While writing is extremely important and sometimes the voice, the beauty with which you construct the sentences can make or break a book, I definitely need a story that is worthwhile. What's the point of a stunning prose if there is no good plot.
But that's just because I had to choose, I think a book MUST have both. I want my cake and I want to eat it too.
Think, Ian McEwan or Margaret Atwood.
Great plots and pretty prose.
This week’s theme is
VERY
"The very complexity of her feelings confirmed Briony in her view that she was entering an arena of adult emotion and dissembling from which her writing was bound to benefit. "
"I'm very very sorry."
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Yeah, that was a tough one. Having both is the ideal. Choosing between them was difficult. Thanks for dropping by my blog earlier. Enjoy your reading.
ReplyDeleteI like how she says very very sorry. 'Very' always makes a word sound so much more meaningful doesn't it. Thanks for participating.
ReplyDeleteFor the very first week you surely have some bombshell snippets :)
I think they are both important, too. It's hard to chose one over the other.
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