I enjoyed the writing exercise of the other day. It felt good to write bad and, to my amazement, a story started to emerge from the bad writing. I already knew there was power in allowing oneself to write poorly, but I found that there may be even greater power in doing it on purpose. So, in keeping with the “Just do something!” philosophy, I am working on the Bucket of Bad, a container of random story elements that can be combined as a writing exercise. Once it’s finished, I’ll decide on the rules of the game and post the first exercise so that you can play along if you want to.
Random Quote
Humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
— Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling character)Meta
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