TopShelf TG Fiction in the BigCloset!
Just in case anyone was looking for a wet blanket to throw over your creativity, this year's results of the Bulwer-Lytton (worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel) Contest are in.
For your reading displeasure: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2010.htm
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Comments
Thanks Pippa,
ALISON
'for such a great laugh.Most enjoyable.
ALISON
Hah, I wish
Some of those are just bril dahling. We should do a contest, pick your fave horrible opening and run with it.
Kris
Runners up
IMHO some of those are better than the winning entries. I particularly groaned at the Sherlock opener, and "Strangers in the night, exchanging glances".
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Mr. Lester's Sister Hester's Monster Keister
This porcupine walked into a bar, bristling!
I'm not sure who has their tongue more firmly in their cheek; the writers or the judges. Actually I think some of these intros would improve the odd story posted here. I might just steal one sometime, although I would be sure to acknowledge the source,
Joanne
I'm just glad
I didn't recognize any of them as something I wrote!
I've always wanted to write a Samantha Spade story that started "It was a dark and rainy night."
But alas, my muse tends to head for parts unknown everytime I need her.
Hugs
Carla
It was a Dark and Stormy
It was a Dark and Stormy night as I looked for a place to light a match. I wanted to see where I was going but my trusty bic lighter just kept blowing out and burning my fingers on the deep deserted path leading through the dark depressing woods.