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Subject: Let's try this again ...


Crescent ( ) posted Fri, 02 August 2002 at 10:26 PM · edited Sun, 19 January 2025 at 2:17 AM

Attached Link: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

Hey, there's a really fun contest called "It was a dark and stormy night" that runs each year from San Jose State University. It gets submissions from all around the world asking for the worst opening sentence for a story or novel. The latest winners can be found at: http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2002.htm If you want to feel better about your own writing abilities, here's the place to go! I'd thought about running a contest here for worst sentence, but the contest is copyrighted. I suppose we could do something for the worst ending sentence, but I don't know how well that would work. ;-) On the bright side, there's plenty of time to get ready for the 21st annual contest!


Stormrage ( ) posted Tue, 06 August 2002 at 9:42 PM

the worst sentence that started a book.. When I was younger i read a book.. can't remember the name of it but i remember the opening page.. it was a wet blue rainy morning, I know cause I was there. The rest of the book was even worse.


retrocity ( ) posted Fri, 09 August 2002 at 2:16 PM

Crescent, the worst ending sentence would be ..."So, the butler DID do it!" :) retrocity


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