I'm wanting to improve my writing skills, and I think the

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2016-10-09 23:16:24 Post No. 8601868
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Anonymous 2016-10-09 23:16:24 Post No. 8601868 [Report]

I'm wanting to improve my writing skills, and I think the saying of "you learn more from something bad than something great" is true. Can /lit/ hook me up with any books you think are truly awful, that might serve as a good lesson in what not to do when writing?

Free indie e-books would obvs be best, I'd assume that anything published and sitting in a bookstore is at least somewhat competent (happy to be proven wrong on that if you have examples).

Anonymous 2016-10-09 23:18:01 Post No.8601876
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Anonymous 2016-10-09 23:18:01 Post No.8601876 [Report]

>>8601868
read fanfics on tumblr.
it doesn't get worse than that

Anonymous 2016-10-10 04:19:04 Post No.8602646
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I don't know. I learned a whole lot just reading my own writing and realizing it was horrible. If you go into a bookstore and think, 'wait, this is decent' then you're good.

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>>8601868
Not a novel, but this is full of examples of bad writing. It is the only writing manual I own and have read in full partly because I agree that learning what not to do is more helpful and partly because it is funny.

Anonymous 2016-10-10 04:56:22 Post No.8602713
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Anonymous 2016-10-10 04:56:22 Post No.8602713 [Report]

>>8601876
thats like diving into an ocean and trying to find out what whats bad for you in it and whats not, its too much too fucking handle man

Anonymous 2016-10-10 04:58:20 Post No.8602717
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Anonymous 2016-10-10 04:58:20 Post No.8602717 [Report]

>>8602713
Everything in it ia bad for you.

Anonymous 2016-10-10 05:01:28 Post No.8602724
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Anonymous 2016-10-10 05:01:28 Post No.8602724 [Report]

>>8602717
salmon isn't bad for you and neither is seaweed.

Anonymous 2016-10-10 05:05:48 Post No.8602735
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>>8602724
Tumblr fanfics have neither. They may have shitty writing about them though

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