Writing 101

Advanced Bad Writing 210

• course prerequisites: Writing 101, Bad Writing 102.

Course overview: 

 

Sometimes a language cannot express a thought directly. You can either reshape the thought or butcher the language.

Both options are acceptable.

'Sometimes'. I said, 'sometimes'. Not all the time. Bad writing is butchering the language when the language is equipped to express your thought directly. Butchering when you don't need to is bad.

Becoming a better writer is gaining agility with the language to express direct thoughts without re-shaping or butchering.

But every language has limitations, beyond which no pen-fighting expertise can penetrate by precision strikes of nimble footwork. In those situations, you need to bulldoze through the defenses of grammar, convention, and sentence structure. Use the sheer force of understandable thought.

Keep calm and speak Doge. Such meme. Many dank. So thought. Much wow. Amaze! Excite!