The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2013 - Winners! The winners of the Bulwer-Lytton worst opening line contest for 2013 were announced awhile back. Bulwer-Lytton wrote the famous first line: "It was a dark and stormy night..." which went straight downhill from there. Now the contest draws some of the most creative writers who work to construct the very worst of book beginnings. The overall winner this year is Chris Wieloch, from Brookfield, Wisconsin, and he deserves all the credit he can get for: "She strutted into my office wearing a dress that clung to her like Saran Wrap to a sloppily butchered pork knuckle, bone and sinew jutting and lurching asymmetrically beneath its folds, the tightness exaggerating the granularity of the suet and causing what little palatable meat there was to sweat, its transparency the thief of imagination." If you dare, read the top entries and winners for all the categories by following this link: bulwer-lytton/2013win.html They even reward the best Purple Prose: He had a way with women that was at first endearing, then gradually engendered caution and finally outright rejection, like potato salad at a summer picnic. Penned by Paul Sutcliffe, Pittsburgh, PA I marvel at the skill—nay the wily wretchedness—of these individuals. Congratulations to all!
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 04:59:47 +0000
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