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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2024 winners have been announced! Some of these are hilarious!
If you don't know what this contest is: "Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels." The novels do not actually exist.
https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2024
#BulwerLytton #Writing #Fiction #OpeningLines #blfc2024

It was a dark and stormy night, the inky pools of shadow in the sparsely furnished room punctuated only by jittery flashes of lightning and the throbbing #065a8f rather than #006699 blue background and glowing scroll of resolute white text and flirtatious lime green links as styled by the Modern Dark theme (for it is on Metafilter.com that our scene lies) emanating from the sleepless reader's laptop screen.

https://www.metafilter.com/205160/2024-Bulwer-Lytton-winners-announced

#Bulwer #BulwerLytton #DarkAndStormyNight #Lytton #OpeningLines #prizes #winners

collage by mefi staff: a dark room with a window in the background, through which a lightning storm is visible. The lightning illuminates the sky, highlighting the outlines of some objects, possibly rooftops, or trees. In the foreground, there's a laptop screen emitting a soft glow in the otherwise dark room. The screen displays white text on a webpage with a dark blue background. The overall atmosphere of the image is moody and tense, with the contrast between the storm outside and the laptop's glow creating a sense of isolation or focus.

Reading last year's Bulwer-Lytton winners and, hot take, Jim Anderson from Flushing, MI *absolutely* should have won the category. It's an absolute crime that he lost to a dumb Hooters joke.

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2022

#humor #writing #BulwerLytton

I never quite know if #BulwerLytton is actually in earnest or if it's a years-long troll, because some of these are hilarious and I wouldn't mind reading the rest of these

Or maybe I just unironically love bad fiction

"She was a beautiful woman; more specifically she was the kind of beautiful woman who had an hourlong skincare routine that made her look either ethereal or like a glazed donut, depending on how attracted to her you were."

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2023

#BulwerLytton2023 #BadFiction

The winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (which challenges entrants to come up with the worst possible opening sentence for a novel) have been posted:

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2023

#writing #BulwerLytton #ItWasADarkAndStormyNight

Edward #BulwerLytton passed away on this date in 1873. A prolific #writer, he is best known today for the opening phrase of his novel Paul Clifford, 'It was a dark and stormy night.'

Read on here, at your peril, #booklovers https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7735/7735-h/7735-h.htm

#bookstodon

Behold: the '22 #BulwerLytton #Fiction Contest winner:

I knew she was trouble the second she walked into my 24-hour deli, laundromat, and detective agency, and after dropping a load of unmentionables in one of the heavy-duty machines (a mistake that would soon turn deadly) she turned to me, asking for two things: find her missing husband and make her a salami on rye with spicy mustard, breaking into tears when I told her I couldn't help - I was fresh out of salami.

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2022

#BulwerLytton

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