I don't necessarily believe that writing useless words is any help in later on writing good words

At Clarion, Samuel Delany said something like, "Writing a bad stories isn't practice for writing a good story, it's just practice for writing another bad story."
Which is a pretty uncompromising thing to say. And also a little bit untrue, since almost every writer does get incrementally better over time, so, in some way, writing bad stories does feel lik…
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