Forum: Writers


Subject: Let's try this again ...

Crescent opened this issue on Aug 02, 2002 ยท 3 posts


Crescent posted Fri, 02 August 2002 at 10:26 PM

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