Avoid bad stories
It’s difficult to live with bad writing, so sometimes we decide not to write or tell a story. We want to avoid bad stories, but this is impossible. We need to tell bad stories. Until they’re told, stories are just ideas. And what is a bad story anyway? Sometimes a bad story is a matter of timing, like John Kennedy Toole’s book A_Confederacy_of_Dunces, which was posthumously awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Price for Fiction. The book had been rejected by various publishers, and it