Bad fiction

[periwinkle27]

Some of you may know the story "A Dark and Stormy Night" that I cowrote as part of a bad grammar challenge.

snow_fall pointed me to another example of bad!fic:

The Dark and Stormy Knight by forthrighthttp://www.fanfiction.net/s/4198916/1/The_Dark_and_Stormy_Knight

Comments

[snow_fall]

Oh yes, the best Bad!Fic. This was a product of a challenge. Forthrightly is totally awesome. I loved her play with misused words and bad grammar. It's a lot of fun, but will hurt your brain. LOL

[periwinkle27]

thanks for showing it to me

[zellieh]

Oh my god, that is awful. ::laughs like a drain::

[periwinkle27]

My work here is done ;)

try How Not to write Fan Fiction: "A Dark and Stormy Night"
http://carriagehillpress.com/periwinkle/darkandstormynight.html

I did it with my Harry Potter group. You don't need to be in the fandom to appreciate it - it was done one day when I lost my temper at an author who had 27 semicolons in the first page. (Did you know I prefer to beta rather than write? I really think of myself as a beta.)

[zellieh]

Oh gods, the Wall Of Text! The run-on sentences! The endless sub-clauses and digressions! ::laughs::

Many of my stories have started when I've got annoyed at another author and said to myself, "even I could do better than that!" But then pride goeth before a fall... ::laughs at self::

(I did not know that! I think I'd do better as a beta than a writer; I'd definitely get more done if I was working to other people's deadlines.)

[periwinkle27]

I started writing for just that reason. in a few of the fandoms I beta the writing is so terrible that I could write at the fourth grade level and be better.

Pearle and Shiv are wonderful writers - it takes real talent to write that badly.

[avery11]

(Giggle.) This reminds me of the poem I used to teach my students to show them how important it is to listen:

"One bright day, in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
Came and shot those wto dead boys.
If you believe this lie is true,
Go ask the blind man; he saw it, too."

[periwinkle27]

Now you've got me thinking of one of my favorite poems when I was in school:

Eletelephony

Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant-
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone-
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)

Howe'er it was, he go his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee-
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telphong!)

Laura E. Richards

[avery11]

And the teacher wondered why we were giggling in class! Love it, thanks!

[periwinkle27]

I can still recite this sucker. I'm also known for Burgess' response to his own poem "The Purple Cow