Whether it causes confusion, disdain, or disgust, bad writing rouses strong feelings for readers and writers alike. But what exactly makes the writing so terrible?
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All Writers Need to Believe in Stories
New writers are encouraged to read, and so read I did – about the evils of misrepresentation, the cleverness of subverted tropes, the laughable Mary Sue phenomenon, fantasy clichés, fantasy subgenres, new books, classic books, books that I could have written better, books that put my prose to shame, books that irritated me for reasons I could not identify…
Emma Lammers 