Board Thread:Clubs/@comment-38091275-20190513174141/@comment-38480398-20190527233657

Agree 100% with Aqua (and Sky and Lightning and Jewel). Cliches are practically unavoidable. I'd rather have a slightly predictable plot and some really great, deep, well-developed chracters, and an excellent, descriptive, entertaining writing style. Although a few plot twists would be nice, it's the writing and characters that define almost all stories nowadays. Reversed, it's much worse. Bland characters, good plot, good writing.... don't know. If it's exclusively plot-driven maybe- but what book is entirely plot-driven, without any use of characters? I can't name any. You need characters, plot-driven or not. As for good characters, good plot and bad writig style- absolutely not! You can have he best characters in the world, and a unique, inventive, creative, original, fascinating plot; if your writing style is bland, boring, dry, or stutters/stumbles/doesn't flow, forget it. A book has to be nice to read seen from the aspect of the words and sentece structures themselves.