So much of it is just plain personal taste. I can't for example read the Mary Russell books or Jane Austen ones, I find them horrid - and those are published and you enjoy them. And the P&P fanfics don't appeal to me at all, although I did love Sandition - the completion of a Jane Austen WIP by another writer - and it in some respects is my favorite. Blasphemy? Maybe.
Fanfic is much the same way. There are some early works by Wisteria and Herself that I adored entitled: "Whatever She Deserves", "Loving Kindness" and one by Wisteria about a roadtrip. Beautifully written, good use of description and excellent use of language. I'm over-sensitive to certain things others aren't. For example: Whedon's writing bugs me at times, because he does not distinguish between characters and his dialogue sounds the same at times (ie everyone sounds like Xander), yet other's not so much.
What I've learned is what one person thinks is excellent, the best work ever, another may hate to pieces and oddly both are right. It's just a matter of taste and what you want. I hate cozy mysteries - find them duller than dirt, but other people adore them as an example. Give me a good noire any day. ;-)
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Fanfic is much the same way. There are some early works by Wisteria and Herself that I adored entitled: "Whatever She Deserves", "Loving Kindness" and one by Wisteria about a roadtrip. Beautifully written, good use of description and excellent use of language. I'm over-sensitive to certain things others aren't. For example: Whedon's writing bugs me at times, because he does not distinguish between characters and his dialogue sounds the same at times (ie everyone sounds like Xander), yet other's not so much.
What I've learned is what one person thinks is excellent, the best work ever, another may hate to pieces and oddly both are right. It's just a matter of taste and what you want. I hate cozy mysteries - find them duller than dirt, but other people adore them as an example. Give me a good noire any day. ;-)