Who Decides Whether Writing Is Good, and What Criteria Do They Use?

Writers, editors, publishers, and literary critics aren’t the ultimate judges

Wendi Gordon
The Writing Cooperative
7 min readMay 9, 2023

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Who decides whether writing is good? Is it the experienced writers who teach the craft? Is it the editors who decide an idea has potential, then help writers revise their work until it is deemed good enough to publish? Is…

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