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See also https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged participants to write an atr
by jl6 5y ago
See also https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged participants to write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written. The whimsical literary competition honors Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with “It was a dark and stormy night.”
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoSecond sentence: "Suddenly a shot rang out." Which explains my (never actually submitted) entry: "He was a dork, and Stormy Knight suddenly shot the ring right out of his fingers, because she was tired of dorks, and especially the kind of dork who would presume that she would marry him, even though he was a dork and she was the kind of girl who could shoot a ring right out of a man's hand, hitting nothing but the ring and a few miscellaneous bits of fingertip."
- sophacles 5y agoWow, that is attrocious. I kept getting bored part way through and had to force myself to go back and try again. Now I've reached semantic saturation on the word dork. Well done!
- vharuck 5y agoAnd, of course, the Lyttle Lytton contest, for those who want less meanderingly-bad and more cleverly-bad. Or inappropriate sexual imagery bad. http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html