What is a synonym for bad writing?
I am looking for a word to reflect what a novice author would use to describe his own writing (somewhat derogatorily). My first thought was drivel.
Hack (hackwork), drek, schlock, pulp, sludge (only because fiction magazine editors call the mass of submissions that come over the transom the "sludge pile").
Perhaps the word you are looking for is scrawl
v.tr. To write hastily or illegibly.
v.intr. To write in a sprawling, irregular manner.
n.
- Irregular, often illegible handwriting.
- Something, such as a note, written hastily or illegibly.
scribble
His awful writing is nothing but scribbles.
doodle
And yet, the film works in spite of all its cute writerly and aesthetic doodling.
The examples are googlable.
It's called cacography.
defined as:
bad handwriting; poor penmanship.