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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silvercat Moonpaw" data-source="post: 4757158" data-attributes="member: 46652">But if knowing proper grammar meant that you could never go back to writing slang, even if you wanted to, because now you loath it can you really say that you're better off?  I wouldn't.And doing a whole lot of research to the point at which you can no longer stand the information and decide to dump the project is worse.Stories existed long before those writers came on the scene.  Tropes and conventions existed before they did.  I don't have to be impressed with them over some imagined gratitude.  If they had not existed my interest would still be relevant.Amount of work does not impress me.  You can exhaustively research a subject, but if you don't know how to present it so that your audience cares then only those who create their own interest will.  Can you honestly say that you'd care about those writers if they'd done the same amount of research but written crappy books?EDIT Due to EDIT:Like I said I haven't read any of these authors.  But you sound like those people I hear tout the supposed virtues of "literature".  Yet when I read the books they hold up I don't get whatever feeling makes them like those books so much.  All I read is a mess that I think is trying to convey a message but failing because there is too much information presented and not enough direction.  (I'm sorry if I'm reading something into your comments that you're not trying to say, but this is the only comparason I have.)</blockquote>

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