What makes someone a good writer? Prose? Story? Ideas? Characters?

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>>8394423

and meme value

>>8394423
Basically a mastery of at least one of those categories.

Borges, for example, is great because of his ideas and storytelling.
Joyce is great because of his prose more than anything else, even if he was proficient on the other categories.

Meme value too.

This is not the place to ask. Half of these goofballs cant even finish what they write.

Your best is just reading the good stuff and learning it intuitively, but /some/ writing manuals can point you in the right direction as well.

>>8394442
any suggestions on the writing manuals? thanks.

>>8394448
John Gardner's Art of Fiction is a good one. Lajos Egri has it together too.

>>8394423
is that superman and wonderwomen.

>>8394423
GOYED

>>8394423
Like everything else, intelligence and strength of motive. You have to be able to see things properly, to identify the proper forms, and you have to have the will to persevere through endless imperfect incarnations in an impossible attempt to reach something without flaw.

>>8394458
Hamm Man on Rye Gal

>>8394440
I'd say Joyce's greatest strength was in his ability to develop characters through the use of perspective and prosaic techniques.

>>8394423
Keep your hungry skeletals in tv
>>>/tv/