You're well into writing your story idea, and you know the beats you need to hit to make it work. Then, you get caught in the writer's bog of doom on your way between beats.

By nature, bogs are swampy, emitting queefy sounds as you slog through them. If you stop moving, you'll get sucked in and become a cranky swap monster with an unfinished draft.

So, how do you get through the sludge?

You write the shitty shit.

The only way to write your way out of the bog is to write something bad — Something shitty.

"He got out of the car and then closed the door and saw a bird."

Not great, but we're getting somewhere. We're writing.

The fruit hides beneath a putrid layer of shit.

"When he looked across the park, he saw an assassin murder a sweet old granny in broad daylight. Her wig fell off as she hit the ground, and he realized she's wasn't a granny at all. The target was the burglar he saw on the news, who hijacked a bus full of children as his getaway ride. He noticed the assassin wore custom Chuck Taylors, the exact shoes his wife laced up for her morning run."

We wouldn't have made it through the bog without writing some cringe-worthy words.

Worry about polishing the turds later.

Writing is thinking, idea vomiting, and traversing the bog to get the story down. You can survey the carnage later, edit the words and put a bow on your boggy beast.