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Want to become a horrible writer? Here is how to achieve that

Amrit Hallan
4 min readOct 9, 2024

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Ah, the beauty of being a truly awful writer.

It’s a craft that is not for the fainthearted.

To really excel, you must master the art of wasting people’s time.

You must know how to turn every sentence into a wild goose chase — write in a manner that the readers can never make sense of what you are writing.

Leave your readers bewildered.

This is the true charm of bad writing — delivering absolutely no value.

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Hidden beneath all those convoluted words, nothing meaningful should lurk.

The best outcome would be leaving the reader with less understanding than they started with.

Becoming a horrible writer isn’t as difficult as it may seem in the beginning.

But if you’re truly a writer, it may be an uphill task to act like a horrible writer, or become a horrible writer.

You need an unwavering commitment to avoid everything that may give an impression to people that you are a good writer.

Interested?

The following tips can help you churn out heaps of meaningless writing.

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Amrit Hallan
Amrit Hallan

Written by Amrit Hallan

I don’t care much about being politically correct. Things are just right or wrong and yes, sometimes there are grey areas in this is why we write, don’t we?

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