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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a yearly contest to find the best worst opening sentence of a novel, started in 1982 by Professor Scott Rice of the San Jose State University in California after having to do research on Edward Bulwer-Lytton and learning of his famous line, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night.There have been print collections of entries: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (1984) Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" (1987) Bride of Dark and Stormy (1988) It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Final Conflict (1992) Dark and Stormy Rules Again (1996)It inspired Adam Cadre to form the Lyttle Lytton Contest due to finding the Bulwer-Lytton too long.That started in 2001. | |
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Feghoot: Among the categories is "Vile Puns", containing winners and dishonorable mentions consisting of Hurricane of Puns entries and sentences that build up to a pun at the end. The winning Vile Pun entry from 2005: A dishonorable mention from 2021: | |
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Aliens in Cardiff | |
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Aliens in Cardiff: An entry recorded in It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, discards the Big City and sets the putative action in a more unlikely venue: | |
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I Kiss Your Hand | |
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I Kiss Your Hand: The second-place winner of the 1984 contest is about the feelings of a woman whose hand is being kissed, from Georgia State University professor Joseph Parko, who penned: | |
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Our Mermaids Are Different | |
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Our Mermaids Are Different: From 2013's Miscellaneous Dishonorable Mentions, this sentence: | |
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Mesodiplosis: 2023 entries, one of the Romance category's Dishonorable Mentions uses a list of "the [Noun] (on/in) his [Noun]" comparative phrases to say how Doug feels about his love interest: | |
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Anaphora | |
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Anaphora: The 1987 winner, uses "ya": The 1988 winner uses "A man" to prefix a list of qualities: | |
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Snobby Hobbies | |
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Snobby Hobbies: From 2022, one of the Dishonorable Mentions of the Odious Outliers category, talks about classy, a.k.a rich, people activities: | |
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Alliterative List | |
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Alliterative List: From 2013's Miscellaneous Dishonorable Mentions, a list of alliterative items and some more Added Alliterative Appeal: | |
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Shout-Out: To Joanne Rowling and her Harry Potter series, in the 2008 Children’s Literature winner, referencing Dumbledore, Hagrid, Harry Potter, Quidditch, and Quirrel + Voldemort: | |
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Tom Swifty | |
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Tom Swifty: It's a competition for bad prose, so this trope is kinda enforced. From Kimberly Baer, Woodbridge, VA in 2016, we have these. | |
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Barbarian Tribe | |
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Barbarian Tribe: The 1984 winner mentions a "barbarous tribe": | |
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