ET
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I'm probably headbanging right now.
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Post by ET on Jun 21, 2012 19:13:21 GMT -6
I didn't write that, it's on the Bulwer-Lytton "About" page. If you like, go Google it.
Anyways, I'd love to hear everybody's worst first sentences. GO!
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Post by Marie J on Jun 22, 2012 14:21:06 GMT -6
So what exactly do you want us to do?
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ET
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I'm probably headbanging right now.
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Post by ET on Jun 22, 2012 21:35:52 GMT -6
Write awful first sentences for novels that aren't written yet and probably never should be. If you need inspiration, here's the list of winners for last year: www.bulwer-lytton.com/2011win.html
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Post by Marie J on Jun 24, 2012 11:34:12 GMT -6
Given the examples from the previous year, insomuch as they weren't as horrible as the year before, and because of what will probably come to pass sometime in the next couple years (directly from her nightmares, she assumes), Angela McMorrison stumbles throughout the laden, ludicrous labyrinth of her life in utter, complete, total, and absolute confusion. Is this bad enough? Also, I think it is awesome that the winner of last year's contest is from Wisconsin. We rock the world...if not only in absurd ways. (Wisconsin has over 26% of all the disc golf courses in the United States...)
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Post by elisabel on Feb 12, 2014 17:49:50 GMT -6
Mind if I bump this thread? 'Cause I have something /brilliantly/ dim (yeah, I'm bragging):
Most deliberately terrible novels started with a vile pun that should get the writer vilely pu--er, disciplined, or with a simile that lost itself more thoroughly in catches and complexities than a football--that is, if you can catch a football--the author (the one about whom this story is to be, not the hypothetical one who should be punished) had forgotten the rules of football, though she was pretty sure they were complex--but alas! her opening line was a mixture of both those cliches; and sighing, she closed her word processor and set herself to writing good honest literature.
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