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Who_Am_I
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09 Mar 2013, 3:19 am

Fnord wrote:
Even bad writing can be good...

"The Snooze of Kilimanjaro", by Mark Silber, Grand-Prize Winner (1986) of the International Imitation Hemingway Competition.

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He could taste Death in the wind. He could hear it tiptoe around the campsite. He could see it climbing a tree, hiding in a garbage can, tripping over a root. Clumsy Death. Once he thought Death tapped him on the shoulder, but it must have ducked when he turned around to see who it was. "The night can play strange tricks on a man," the woman had said. Sure enough, when he awoke, the next morning, there was a "Kick Me" sign pinned to his back.


... but still, you must use proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling.


http://writebadlywell.blogspot.com.au/

^ Is awesome.

http://writebadlywell.blogspot.com.au/2 ... rnest.html


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09 Mar 2013, 1:59 pm

I must be unique on here in that I had trouble putting my thoughts into words. I could read at the age of three, I could always write well and I could write ten page essays without misspelling a word, but I had a lot of trouble with writing my thoughts down. I've gotten FAR better in the last three years or so. Really as long as I've been on this site. Most people would say I'm being really hard on myself, but the trouble I had was that I was afraid of saying the wrong thing. I got A's in English all the time, but I was mentally disorganized. I don't think my troubles were a function of Asperger's though; it was a function of my anxiety. I think the reason Aspies can write well is because we are honest, and good writing is about describing things as they are. I've always been a bad persuasive writer though, and I'm assuming I'm not the only one.



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12 Mar 2013, 10:01 am

Was very early to learn to read and write and was always ahead of class until around 12/13 years old when things were difficult.

Went a bit off the rails in the last year of school, screwed up my exams and ended up working full time at 16. Never followed up on formal education since but my mum bought me a book I really connected with when I was around 18 and from that moment on I just fell in love with reading, now you can't tear a book out of my hand. (was in Waterstones an hour ago browsing on my lunch break as I just love book shops - full of knowledge and quiet places!)

Dream is to write a book, probably need to educate myself a little more on language before that can happen though