Bad Writing

[Sue]

Don't even ask how I came to look at this website, but it must be amongst the worst written tripe I've ever read in my life.

http://www.travis-walton.com/abduction.html

It's so bad it almost physically hurts to read it :))

ETA: Except that pissing myself laughing helps the physical pain :))

[DulwichFox]

Yep.. pretty bad..

Got as far as ..

'The soft yellow haze from the craft dimly illuminated the immediate area with an eerie glow.'

Let' be fair. Travis Walton is only five years old.

Foxy.

[El Pibe]

isn't he a scientologist? says it all really.

[maxxi]

"Impaled by the sight, we were held transfixed ..." - someone needs to get laid.

[Voyageur]

Appalling *shudders*

[computedshorty]

? Travis? or is it Siv Art.

Uses Americanisms but also uses old English measurements ? FEET? .

So must be of the pre decimal era.

Does indicate that he is heading back to Heber Road School?

Further education Evening Classes?

? They were still arguing a mile down the road, where they reached the turnoff that went north to Heber? .

[Voyageur]

This thread prompted me to look on the web for bad writing awards and I found a perfect website: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2012win.html How's this for dreadful (the winning phrase):

Winner 2012

As he told her that he loved her she gazed into his eyes, wondering, as she noted the infestation of eyelash mites, the tiny deodicids burrowing into his follicles to eat the greasy sebum therein, each female laying up to 25 eggs in a single follicle, causing inflammation, whether the eyes are truly the windows of the soul; and, if so, his soul needed regrouting. ? Cathy Bryant, Manchester, England

The winner of the 2012 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is Cathy Bryant of Manchester, England.

[El Pibe]

That's brilliant.

[Sue]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> isn't he a scientologist? says it all really.

xxxxxxx

In case anybody thinks that has anything to do with how I came to be looking at the website, heaven forbid, it was because I came across this quote:

?All I ask is for an objective consideration of all the evidence. Anyone who won't do that isn?t really entitled to an opinion.? ? Travis Walton

I thought it was an excellent quote, and I'd never heard of Travis Walton, so I googled him. Now I sort of wish I hadn't :))

And the writing is so extraordinarily bad that I can't even read enough of it to find out what his supposed evidence is :))

[Sue]

maxxi Wrote:

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> "Impaled by the sight, we were held transfixed

> ..." - someone needs to get laid.

xxxxxx

:)) :)) :))

ETA: Voyageur, I haven't looked at the website you mentioned yet but surely, surely, surely that winning entry was deliberately written to be bad?