Friday Feature Bad Writing
Top Ten Ways to Recognize Bad Writing (tongue in cheek)
10. When u lk at it u c something tht lks lke txt—I 
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9. there is no capitalization—anywhere.
7. The characters all laugh, comment, and argue their dialogue, when a simple said would suffice.
8. There are no tags—dialogue, identifying, or action—on any dialogue.
6. The page blooms with purple prose and author intrusion.
5. There’s no white space on the page.
4. There are very very long run-on sentences with very little punctuation in them to give the reader a break or clarify the meanings just a period at the end of the sentence and it looks a whole lot like this.
3. There is so, so, so, much punctuation, commas, semicolons, and, colons, on every line, and, or, every page, that, in a matter of only a few seconds of reading, you lose track of what’s being said, as well as your train of thought.
2. The word was appears 20 or more times on a page.
And the Number ONE way to recognize bad writing:
1. You didn’t write it.
Which one made you laugh? Let us know in the comments.
