As they introduce themselves on their website: “Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged participants to write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written. Our whimsical literary competition honors Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with ‘It was a dark and stormy night’.”
Celebrate the 2022 winner … and view all the other winners (by genre), along with the accompanying Dishonorable Mentions.
Great writerly fun!
Disclaimer: This book is not intended for the super cool.
If you begin every day by setting an intention while doing yoga on a paddleboard (and somehow not falling off), you’re out of my league. If you are even semi-fluent in the Urban Dictionary, there’s little chance we’ll connect. And if you use a vaginal steamer, well, I think we’re done here. Especially if you don’t have a vagina.
On the other hand…
if your spirit animal is the blobfish or you regularly and inexplicably choke on your own saliva, we might be related. If you find intermittent fasting to be both cruel and unusual, I feel your pain. If your athletic abilities could best be described as blundering and oafish, I’m right there with you. It’s possible that we speak the same language.
We should talk.
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From Amanda Turner (aka AK Turner), the New York Times bestselling author of This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store, Mommy Had a Little Flask, Hair of the Corn Dog, Vagabonding with Kids, Vagabonding with Kids: Australia, Vagabonding with Kids: Brazil, and Vagabonding with Kids: Alaska. She hosts an annual writing retreat in Todos Santos, Mexico. You can learn more at AmandaTurner.com.
