Celebrate your bad writing

Hey you. Yes, you.You're a writer, right? Bet your hard disk is filled with awesome stories you've written. I also bet you've got some skeletons hidden in a dusty closeted corner of your hard disk. Files that contain bad writing!You know, the horrors that should never see daylight again.Writing you may have worked on for weeks and discarded for being utterly unworkable, writing you may have written in response a writing prompt that really didn't click with you. Bad writing is good for youI have lots n lots of bad writing on my hard disk, and I keep it there. Reading through it is a never ending source of entertainment.It's also the compost heap for good writing. Sometimes there's an idea for a story that is goodness but clogged up in lots of bad writing.I can always fish that good idea out of the compost heap and turn it into something new.Fun fact: bad writing makes you a better writer.My own bad writingThis is the start of a story I wrote in response to a writing prompt (unusual…