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#6: Eight Tell-Tale Signs of Bad Creative Writing
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#6: Eight Tell-Tale Signs of Bad Creative Writing

with my bad writing under the microscope

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Sheela Clary
Feb 08, 2025
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A different version of this essay was originally published, in the Berkshire Edge on April 18, 2022

As a would-be creative writer, I’ve come to embrace my bad writing as signposts on a long journey. When I write a thing one day that I can’t bear to look at the next, I call it what it is: an instructive turd. Once such a turd is produced and duly noted, a…

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