The worst short story is the one I haven't written for whatever reason: it wasn't good enough; I didn't have the time; there were more important projects; etc, etc,etc
Because
you learn from everything you do, even the bad stuff - particularly
the bad stuff.
However,
my English teacher would tell you that my worst short story was
titled
"The
Shorter-Than-Short, Shortest Short Story In The World"
And
it broke all of the rules: I used different fonts to indicate
different people; I misspelled words to denote accent and
pronunciation; I used the position of words on the page for artistic
effect; and as the protagonist of the story walked away at the end,
mumbling to himself, I made the writing smaller and smaller to
indicate fading with distance.
I
got zero out of ten for it. But I got two useful things out of it:
some kudos amongst my mates: and a realization of the Tyranny of the
Ghost Book. The art of writing had become so reduced that all that
mattered was the choice of the word and the sequence you put them.
Everything else was just white coral bones. As far as I was
concerned, that was a terrible loss.
Because
of that story, I started to take an interest in illumination, graphic
design, logo design, word art, advertising, graffiti and any other
art form where image and words combined to tell a story.
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