What Do You Say to a Writer Who Can't Write?

What do you say when somebody has churned out just a real piece of garbage, and you want to be their cheer leader anyway? How do you get the whole don't encourage an 80 year old woman to become a ballarina. But what do you say to a writer who can't write? I say, there is some good in everything. Listen to what she's written. Read what she's writing. There's something in there that is good, something that you can compliment ah, maybe it's a character. And then you might say, your plot needs work. Your plot really, you really need to work on that. Don't stay that that'ss its not the