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Wed 22 Aug, 2012 08:46 pm
Winning entry:
"I'll never get over him," she said to herself, and the truth of that statement settled into her brain the way glitter settles onto a plastic landscape in a Christmas snow globe when she accepted the fact that she was trapped in bed between her half-ton boyfriend and the wall when he rolled onto her nightgown and passed out, leaving her no way to climb out.
For three decades, the deeply silly Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged entrants to write the opening sentence to terribly bad books.
The books aren't real, but the best (bad) openers typically cram a whole lot of story into one convoluted phrase.
This year, a Texan won the romance category. Karen Hamilton of Seabrook, Texas.
@edgarblythe,
I've entered a few times.
It's kind of depressing to realize that I'm not a good enough writer to compete in a bad writing contest.
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