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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 3992014" data-attributes="member: 18">I think, as someone who has finished plenty of Mr Greenwood's books (when I was thirteen, literally), it's safe to say that, if there are in the world of published authors, say "good writers", "mediocre writers" and "bad writers" than he falls very firmly into the last catergory. Plotting, characterization, pacing, writing elegance and style, really anything you care to rate him on, even consistency with his own world, he's gonna score badly.He's good at setting design and detailing, when he's not jerking it to some dubious female sextoy he's created (don't make me link that stuff), and I'm sure he's a good GM, but there is no way you can honestly consider him a "good writer" unless you have standards so appallingly low that it depresses me even to think about it.Edit - Just to clarify, I'd catergorise Ed Greenwood as the same sort of creator as George Lucas. Great at envisioning things, great at coming up with tonnes of useful material, good at background and general plots (when he's not indulging himself), but as you get down to a smaller scale, his talent increasingly breaks down, resulting in Lucas' unbelievable/comic-book characters and frequently terrible dialogue, or Greenwood's unbelieveable/fan-fiction characters and frequently terrible lines in his books. I like him as someone to help create a setting, but I'm glad he's not the only one writing it any more.On topic, I think the FR is maybe 30% Greenwood's nowdays, but that's okay with me.Cmarco - If you're hoping to be "half the writer Ed Greenwood is", please never try to get published.</blockquote>

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