What is 'good' writing?

[RESHARE] Is 'good' writing subjective? Or are there objective components to all good writing? Keep reading, then leave a comment to join this dialogue. (See today's writing prompt at the bottom.)

Is good writing, like beauty, truly in the eye of the beholder? Or is it possible to appreciate a piece of writing as objectively 'good' although you aren’t particularly fond of it?

Now, most of us are led to believe that the only objectively 'good' writing out there are the works dubbed as Classics, those works we study in school that are part of a ques…