Truly Bad Writing

Write for 15 minutes, in the worst possible way you can, I mean really really awful. See original comment where this was suggested here - have a look at the link.

NOTE: Post your response on a new thread in the Truly Bad Writing Board.

An additional way to support this wonderful work is to write a short list of the things you think your writing is, or your worst fears about it.. eg:

My writing is boring
My writing is too sentimental
My writing goes nowhere
I don't have any grammar or spelling skills
I don't know enough to write anything
My writing is stereotypical
My writing has no worth, doesn't help the world

etc etc.
Then choose one, and write in the manner of whatever it is you have chosen, eg, if you think your writing is boring, write, for 15 minutes, the MOST boring piece you can imagine. Really go for it…


Post your response here.

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Ok, so, bad writing is totally unimportant for an aspiring writer-to-be, thetefore i see no reason in attempting to partake; so i'm going to rant for fifteen minutes about absolutely nothing.
did yo know that one of the lead singers in tATu isn't bi? i never wouldve got that, but i looked it up in wikepedia, and it said tshe wasn't bi!
ok, so, school is starteing in two daty and i cannot wait for it, as weird as that is.
yo hablo espanokl? quiero estudiar espanol este ano, pero el maestra es horrible, y no tengo un maestra malo.
konichiwa! arigato! hoshi no kirby! ayashi no ceres! japanese rocks!
ok, computers are way too complicated for someone to use if their electronically challengesd.. like me. oi couldn't copy and paste and duplicate this stupid tsable, and had to redo ythe entire thing!!!
Granny wetherwax is crazy!!!!!! greebo scares away wolves and dogs, everbn though he's a acat. have you read whitches abroad? the best book in tghe world, about trying to stop fairy tales from coming true. it takes place inthe the Discworld, on the pbsack of a giant turlte floating through infinity.
ok, thats me ranting for fifteen minutes about what ever comes to mind. reading my words make me feel crazy, and i am glabd this blog doesn't have spell-check!

Re: Truly Bad Writing

Welcome Magic Fire. Just to reiterate Jim:

Please also read the note How This Assignment Archive Works

Your response needs to be moved to my Optional Assignments board. This is where you will get comments and feedback etc. this place here is just for Alex (Happiness) and myself to post actual assigments.

Sadly it's not possible for me or one of the moderators to move your post. We can only edit or delete if you add to a thread. So please repost and I will then delete your post, Thanks! I'm looking forward to commenting on it.

Love,
Sandra

Re: Truly Bad Writing

On the contrary, magic fire - I believe that bad writing can be an extremely useful tool for an aspiring writer-to-be. First, it can help release the sometimes paralyzing desire to write something perfect and profound on first attempt. Fear of writing something less-than-great often contributes to writers' block. Second, it helps train your eye to recognize bad writing when it pops up in your best attempts! When you can easily recognize ineffective writing, it is easier for you to revise and refine your raw material into a work of art.

One of my favorite writing books has a section on awful poems, and it is one of the most enlightening and practical sections of the whole book. Don't be too quick to discount the idea.

;) Deleen

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Hi Deleen - not sure if you saw this post on the Tree House.. would love to get the name of that book :-)
(post your answer there, it will be more easy for us to find, thanks!)
Love,
Sandra

Re: Truly Bad Writing

Hi magic_fire,
and a hearty welcome from us all to the pod!

Here's a few things to read and then you'll know as much as everyone else here in Diving Deeper:

The newsletters:
http://pods.zaadz.com/creativewriting/discussions/board/5116

Notes along the Way:
http://pods.zaadz.com/creativewriting/discussions/board/5164

On Commenting:
http://pods.zaadz.com/creativewriting/discussions/view/141426#141426

Once you've read these you'll be up to speed.

This particular assignment and any other that you post in response to an assigment set by Sandra need to be on Sandra's optional assignments board which is here:

http://pods.zaadz.com/creativewriting/discussions/board/5165

This particular thread is where the assignments are set but we'll move it to the right place for you.

Welcome aboard,
Jim x

Re: Truly Bad Writing

Thank you magic_fire for lighting my sacred fuse. I've been waiting for someone to move this thread to a more appropriate venue, but my fuse has been burning and I'm about to go off.

Boom!

Very cool, what you said, so important to the nature of our quest. For goodness sake, what possible reason can students of the craft of writing have to do with purposefully bad writing? Well for one thing, like what you posted here, it's transgressive. Against the rules. Practice for when you learn to become truly your Self, and express it, which is extraordinarily transgressive in almost any human culture. If you write according to a set of rules that have been set for you by someone else, then it may be good writing, but is it really true? Who says what is good?

“Hoshi no kirby” is perfect in my world. It means I never vacuum. Not literally true, perhaps, but close enough on the quantum level. I want the t-shirt.

Writing is about communication. Good and bad are variable concepts. Communication rules.

Anyway, welcome magic_fire, your frictive voice can spark us wild. Appreciate you breaking the rules. Job security for our moderaters.

Love, Peace, and Yay Typos!

Tom

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TRULY BAD WRITING

Isn’t is rediculous, to attempt, to solve, to question…. this isn’t really a game any more… you can’t just say hey , this is just confusing…. confusion gets you no where….

it’s past that point now… these things you don’t understand… i wouldn’t worry about them… just know what you know… don’t waste your effort and time on messing around with the confusing….

be beyond the mystery of time, of God, of Christ vs. Mohammad, of the Devil, of Sex…

what you know… is what you know…. these are certain… be persistant… be sure of these… youre knowledge will prevail… this is what will guide you… live in certainty…

it may be hard to understand… how can I not be confused…? this world, this life, these combinations of life, are so screwy … shouldn’t all of our heads be a big fog?

Leave behind the fog, do what you know… awknowledge this day to day… the complicated will bury the weak if they let it overcome them… don’t…

live your life in certainty… not in fact, just in a sense of sureness that is comforting… instead of leading you to be lost…

being “confused” may happen at times… but living simply in “confusion” is giving up…

live like you know you should and forget the bull shi$…

Re: Truly Bad Writing

hey Airen…

The 'responses' to this particular assignment 'should' be posted as a new thread on the actual Truly Bad Writing Board, not here on the assignments board.

your writing will get more 'notice' and comments there, rather than here, which is meant as a library of assigments, not a place for any actual creative writing… so if you repost that would be great.
Thanks!

Love,
Sandra

Re: Truly Bad Writing

Sandra, without knowing it herself, is a grand master of  Veda. Yes, that is true.

I have been taught by an artist, a quite famous Swedish artist, who in his turn was taught by Yogi Maharishi. It is the art of Veda, Vedic-Art painting. It start's with feeing your mind from logic and rules. In painting that is a no-no if you want to paint what comes from the inside.

This writing practice is the first lesson in that ancient teaching. Freeing the mind and connecting both brain halves to make a unit, to go in with flow. When a Vedic-Art painter starts to paint he/she always starts with randomly drawing a line, an infinite line, a curving line that continues and continues til it fills the whole canvas/paper. That line is just pure “crap” in it's simplest essence, but there's always many images merging from that crap.