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I have no doubts a lot of writing is odorous. Are there common traits in these stinkers that you see? Grammar? Construction? Dialog? Story?....
ALL of the above. I have read better fanfic from middle schoolers.
I can guess the writers tapped away at a scene until they got bored, then started again in the morning with some other scene until they got bored, rinse, repeat. Again, flat out stinky writing. Opening pages were merely mediocre and I thought I could do it and still get paid with some self-respect, but it kept getting worse. They were throwing everything they could take from Game of Thrones, zombie shows, and all of Marvel and DC movies into a pot of sh**stew and dumped it all over my laptop screen. Body counts ranged from several thousand as bloodily as possible to wiping out the entire universe. How that writer planned for sequels was beyond me, since he'd killed *everything.*
The bad punchline is they were honestly clueless as to just how awful they were.