write badly

NaNoWriMo at its heart encourages people to “set aside a time to do a daily writing practice, to push through barriers of self-doubt, fear, boredom, writer’s block, and to fearlessly write badly,” Johnson said.

When you’re beginning a writing project, give yourself permission to write badly.

We’ve reached the point in American history at which White House professionals, with high-paying jobs in the West Wing, take care to write badly, on purpose, in order to sound like the president of the United States.

“The Massive Tax Cuts, which the Fake News Media is desperate to write badly about so as to please their Democrat bosses, will soon be kicking in and will speak for themselves. Companies are already making big payments to workers. Dems want to raise taxes, hate these big Cuts!” he declared.

People often tell me that academics have no choice but to write badly because the gatekeepers of journals and university presses insist on ponderous language as proof of one’s seriousness.