B&A: Could you write the 'worst book ever' if granted enormous cash?

For those who want me to clarify 'enormous cash', I mean hundreds of billions of dollars. The problem is not accepting it, the problem is could you write it? Do you have any idea of what is would include? ---Also knowing you can not write under a separate name for other works you want to/have publish.





Have fun answering!|||I would definitely be willing, but sadly I would also be incapable. Of course I could write a bad book, and I'd be willing to write a run-of-the mill bad book for a few thousand bucks. But as for the WORST, that's a damned difficult challenge.





I think, to successfully write the worst book, one would have be be truly passionate about the book... the author may well have to believe strongly in the book he/she writes. But the author would have to be naturally bad. Just like talent, this may be an inborn quality which can't be imitated to perfection.





In fact, the competition for worst book may be much more fierce than the competition for best. There are A LOT of really awful books, just abysmally bad, to compete with, but there are very few great ones.





I tell you what though... you couldn't pay me enough to make me the JUDGE in this competition!|||I wouldn't even need to do anything. It's under my bed. I wrote it when I was 14. Can you say "Mary Sue"?





I don't really get your question, though. Nobody would publish it, so why would it matter? And in any case, authors' names aren't unique (a friend of mine published a novel years ago under her own name, but if you Google that name plus "author" you get a bunch of books by someone who isn't her). So it wouldn't worry me that much - my name's not desperately unusual, so I'd expect people to assume the deliberate "worst book" was by someone else who shared my name.|||Possibly. Because if the book was that bad, nobody would ever get to hear about it, in all likelihood.





But if this awful book is going to be make me famous, then no, I wouldn't do it. Not if I couldn't use a different name for subsequent works. If I could use a pen-name, I'd definitely do it, because the money would enable me to give up work and and concentrate full time on writing the books I really want to write. But I wouldn't do it if I thought it would make me a famously bad author and harm my future chances of getting published, no.|||haha i would entitle it "the big bad book of bizarre cliches" and write a short Authors Note on how the book is supposed to be an over-dramatic collection of the worst cliches ever known to man, then i would go to town concocting awkward characters who do strange and stupid things. The cliches would be everywhere, but i would of course make sure no sentence goes smoothly with the one before or after it. Some choppy, some wordy, haha i'd just have fun :)





of course i'd worry how it'd effect my REAL work, but the idea is fun to think over :)|||Yes I would.


Without money problems I could devote my time to redeeming myself. I could also write it so badly that it becomes art. I've seen paintings that were smudges that sold for millions.





People wouldn't care that I wrote filth if I brought them something great.





It would be backward in morals, characters who do not grow, disgusting language, cheap puns for humor.|||this question has been asked before. And no, I couldn't. I take pride in my work. I've worked darn hard to be able to write as well as I can. Have spent years and lots of tears teaching myself. Darned if I'm going to write crap just for the money.