Monday September 20, 2004 The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
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Now that there are lots of people at Sun blogging away, we are (quite rightly) been pointed at places that give you good advice on how to write. Here's a place to go to see what can happen if you don't follow those guidelines. You can win a prize! I'm not sure it's a prize I'd want to win though. |
The contest is named after Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, the person who started one of his novels with these infamous words:
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents -- except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
The winner in the fiction category for 2004 is Dave Zobel, a 42 year old software developer. His winning entry is:
She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight . . . summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp's tail . . . though the term "love affair" now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism . . . not unlike "sand vein," which is after all an intestine, not a vein . . . and that tarry substance inside certainly isn't sand . . . and that brought her back to Ramon.
Check here for the other winners and runners-up. Lots of other great links off the home page.
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