Writing that many people like and enjoy enough to support, pay for, and share. Usually resonates with them personally, has life lessons, universal themes, and is about interesting things from novel perspectives on topics people care deeply about. Structurally sound and pleasant to read. Comprehensible. Enough depth to be read again and still offer things to the reader.
Then there’s leftist writing, which will tend to be infinite run on sentences with semicolons about ugly people being mad at the world.
But what is good writing?
Writing that many people like and enjoy enough to support, pay for, and share. Usually resonates with them personally, has life lessons, universal themes, and is about interesting things from novel perspectives on topics people care deeply about. Structurally sound and pleasant to read. Comprehensible. Enough depth to be read again and still offer things to the reader.
Then there’s leftist writing, which will tend to be infinite run on sentences with semicolons about ugly people being mad at the world.
50 shades of Grey has entered the chat...
but that's not a statement on quality, just a testament to the phrase "sex sells", and when thirsty girls and women are involved, "sex sells A LOT"
Well, the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an autobigraphical story of a man that had a mental breakdown trying to define "quality".
I think "I know it when I see it" is about the best definition you will get.