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> If what you care about is the characters and the plot, you already have those, you wrote them yourself.

Nah. What I have is the skeleton. You want it made flesh. That is what the prose does. It produces a fully realized world. I do not care to read stories in the form of bullet points. Which is what my character sheets and outlines are.

> There is _some_ stuff you read for the prose.

By this I mean you read it for the way the writer writes: prose qua prose. Most times, perfunctory prose that serves as the glue is sufficient