There is no such thing as ‘bad writing’.

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As I was writing a post the other day (The Benefits of Allowing Yourself to Write Badly), I realized that there really is no such thing as ‘bad writing’. There is unedited, incomplete writing. And there is inauthentic writing. But there is not really ‘bad writing’.

Let me explain what I mean.

Certain pieces of writing may seem ‘bad’ at first because they …