User blog comment:Tiololo/For All You Pasta Critics/@comment-25148755-20151226143831

In my recently concluded contest I chose three criteria to grade on: writing style/grammatical correctness, originality/story effectiveness, and creepiness (although you could really consider these five categories). I agree with Banning that originality is huge. However, there is definitely a grammatical line of quality that should not be crossed; no matter how good a story's concept, if the writing is God awful it will drag the story down. There's actually a train of thought that there are no bad stories, just bad story tellers.