Introducing our first WOTW contest:
"World's Worst First Sentence of an Imaginary Novel"*
*inspired by the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest held by newspapers around the county.
Look here for winners of the 2008 Deseret News contest.
Look here for the national contest and related links.
Here are the ground rules for our contest:
- Entries are limited to one sentence. That sentence, however, does not have a word limit. For the purposes of this contest, let's adopt the "more is more" approach.
- Please include the genre of your imaginary novel.
- You may submit more than one entry as long as each entry is a different genre.
- Liberal use of cliches, hyperbole, misplaced modifiers, parenthetical phrases, semi-colons, dashes and the word "suddenly" is highly encouraged.
- Have fun!
Submission guidelines:
- Submission deadline is Wednesday, February 4 at 10:00 p.m.
- Submit your entry as a comment in this post.
- On Thursday, February 5, I will paste all submissions into a new post. I will also set up a poll in the right side bar so you can vote for your favorite.
- The poll will be closed on Wednesday, February 11 at 10 p.m.
- The winner will get a small award during our meeting on February 12.
There you go! I hope you have fun with this one. Comment here if you have any questions.
5 comments:
*model*
*not an entry*
Genre: Romance
Gertrude was not the only one to notice the fact that Blake (known to friends as "The Snake") Rogers was not only hot (he wore his hair in a faux hawk AND he had the good taste to show just a hint of silk red plaid boxers peeking out over his ultra-tight girl pants--just begging to draw the attention of every girl in school) but he also spoke with an English accent; he had her at "Cheerio."
Title:NOT Crazy
Genre: fantasy/young adult???
They all said I was crazy, when I claimed to have seen a two faced walrus dragon with not just one, but two unibrows, not to mention clad in brown and yellow polka dotted bows - and all I could do was laugh - ha, ha, HA, for I knew what I had seen with my uneven rotten pineapple shaped pupils, and if they would not choose to taste the milkweed flavored truth then they would just have to whither in their own guilty insipidness of repulsive lies.
did I put mine in the wrong place or something? Cause no one else has commented. . .
I know it's too late and all, but I still wanted to say something..
Genre: Suspense, thriller, walruseating, happy and fun.
At the movies the following Saturday, a predicament, inescapable as it was, allowed the little child to meet (being one of its upmost dreams)-and later be consumed by- a large, intelligent, French speaking dinosaur who peered out of its glasses with such delight with cheery eyes and a beautiful, almost persuasive smile, showing how interesting its personality could be.
Genre: Mystery
It was a dark and stormy, yet somehow sunny and warm night; the kind that ran shivers down another persons spine and made you sneeze your brains out.
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