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| | Lyttle Lytton Contest |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest |
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LyttleLyttonContest |
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A yearly competition run by Adam Cadre since 2001, where people compete to submit the most atrocious opening line to a novel they can think of, reaching for maximum entertainment. The contest is a derivative of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which has the same purpose; Cadre started Lyttle Lytton when entries in the original contest started getting too unwieldy for his taste (the initial rules for the competition stipulated that an entry could feature no more than 33 words. The rules have since been revised such that the total length of an entrant's combined entries can be no greater than 200 characters).Though the crux of the contest is thinking of bad opening lines for novels, other challenges are offered from time to time—for example, writing a bad opening line of a play, or writing a bad ending line. In addition to the main winner, the various runners-up, the honorable mentions and the jury prizes, Cadre used to award special prizes to particular types of entry, though he stopped doing this some years ago. These included: invoked The Berman Prize, for an opening line suggesting a type of novel Cadre would least like to read. For these entries the emphasis is less on the poor construction of a sentence, and more on a particularly dire premise or poor handling of difficult subject matter. The Comrade Todd Award, in which both the prose and the situation described in the sentence are indefinably off-kilter. The Montfort Medal, for a sentence which amusingly refers to either the sentence's production or consumption.A recurring alternate challenge is to submit bad opening lines found in actual published prose (the "Found" challenge). Cadre has stated on several occasions that he did not intend the Found challenge to be an opportunity for contestants to trawl through FanFiction.Net hunting for howlers (which he considers low-hanging fruit): he is rather more interested in people taking sentences from journalism or academia and imagining them as opening sentences of novels.The contest website is here. |
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Ripped from the Headlines: A common theme for entrants in any given year, but 2021 in particular received several COVID-19 Pandemic entries, such as: |
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Gratuitous Spanish: |
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Your Mom: |
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Emoticon: |
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Anachronism Stew: From the 2008 contest, |
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Hurricane of Puns: |
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Could Say It, But...: As noted above, Cadre no longer officially hands out Berman Prizes, Comrade Todd Awards, or Montfort Medals. But he will sometimes note that an entry would have won such a prize if he was still awarding it (which he isn't). |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Register shifts are a recurring theme: |
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Stuff Blowing Up: |
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Gratuitous French: A particularly weak example: |
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Ikea Erotica: Multiple: From the 2011 entries: |
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Ludicrous Precision: |
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Skewed Priorities: |
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Symploce: A 2003 runner-up by Francis Heaney which is a Shout-Out to A Tale of Two Cities by reusing its first two sentences: |
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Screaming Birth: From the 2011 entries: |
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Be Yourself |
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Be Yourself: Parodied and taken up to eleven: |
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Animal Religion: From what seems to be a genuine attempt at a Xenofiction story, considering it was found on DeviantArt: |
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Author Tract: |
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Donut Mess with a Cop: From Will Nicholes in the 2011 entries, a robot lieutenant's humanoid partner "ate donuts unaware." |
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Significant Anagram: The 2017 winner takes this to a torturous extent. |
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Audience-Alienating Premise:invoked The Berman Prize, as noted above, if given to opening sentences of novels Cadre would least want to read. |
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Parental Incest: Solely for shock value. |
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#HashtagForLaughs: |
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Forgot About His Powers: With Time Travel in this entry: |
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Nubile Savage: The subject of this 2021 entry: |
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Gun Porn: |
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Creatures by Many Other Names: From the 2020 entries, implied as both an orc and an ogre from the name: |
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Understatement: Multiple: The 2011 winner: From the 2018 contest: |
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A Hero Is Born: From the 2011 entries, presumably: |
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Gretzky Has the Ball: A particularly mangled science metaphor quoted from ESPN gets compared to "a scientist explaining a phenomenon in particle physics by comparing it to kicking a home run through the hoop for birdie." |
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Exotic Equipment: |
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World of Funny Animals: |
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Pun: From the 2020 entries, centered on how "Rose" is both a girl's name, and a flower, which both can "bloom": |
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Androids and Detectives: From the 2011 entries, a line from Will Nicholes that has a "robot lieutenant" with a "humanoid partner". |
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Inherently Funny Words: Discussed in a "Found" entry from 2016: "The skeleton was a sheila" from a 2007 entry by Simon Parker, is considered a two-for-one by Adam. "Mealbreads" from the entry quoted under Food Porn. Instead of explaining at length what made the entry funny, Cadre says it was the inclusion of that word. |
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Gay Paree: |
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Show, Don't Tell: Since this is fundamental advice for good writing, it inevitably gets abused in this contest. |
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Well, This Is Not That Trope: |
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Fetus Terrible: One that stealthily references Scientology: ...and whatever is being born here: |
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Measuring the Marigolds: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_8de7402d |
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Saying Sound Effects Out Loud |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9014df71 |
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Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Or in prose: |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9014df71 |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9014df71 |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_96a2363c |
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Bathos |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_96a2363c |
comment |
Bathos: Many entries rely on this kind of humor, with the fictional authors putting serious and ludicrous together. |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_96a2363c |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_96a2363c |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9843be73 |
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As You Know |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9843be73 |
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As You Know: Cadre noted that this entry was trying to check all the boxes. |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9843be73 |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9843be73 |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9ebee577 |
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Anaphora |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9ebee577 |
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Anaphora: The 2001 honorable mention by Jason Melancon, uses "To" for talking about the future: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9ebee577 |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9f63d4f1 |
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Our Vampires Are Different |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9f63d4f1 |
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Our Vampires Are Different: From space! |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9f63d4f1 |
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Glurge |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9fc60cc5 |
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invokedGlurge: |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9fc60cc5 |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_9fc60cc5 |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_a27c0c2c |
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Artistic License – Religion |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_a27c0c2c |
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Artistic License – Religion: The subtle anachronism Cadre noted in this entry: This doozy: |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_a27c0c2c |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_a27c0c2c |
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Familiar |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_a8cff6a |
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Familiar: A rather unconventional one: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_a8cff6a |
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Sour Prudes |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_aa52b7d |
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Sour Prudes: Cadre said that he thought that what made 2008's winning entry work so well was the devastating portrait it created of its fictional author, "an overtly proud but secretly frustrated virgin": |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_aa52b7d |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_aa52b7d |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_b351349c |
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Flowery Elizabethan English |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_b351349c |
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Flowery Elizabethan English: |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_b351349c |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_b351349c |
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Mixed Metaphor |
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Mixed Metaphor: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_bb35f8b6 |
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Failed Future Forecast |
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Failed Future Forecast: One of the 2016 finalists. Cadre notes that this hypothetical novel comes from 1974 or so: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_bb40e7e0 |
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Mind Screw |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_bef696dd |
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Mind Screw: Cadre calls them "...whut?" entries. Here's some: |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_bef696dd |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_bef696dd |
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Shout-Out |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_c75df49a |
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Shout-Out: Entries with allusions to other works regularly appear, usually blatantly. To NaNoWriMo with this entry: From 2017: Cadre needed this one explained to him: |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_c75df49a |
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| | Lyttle Lytton Contest |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_c75df49a |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_d148b019 |
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Mundane Made Awesome |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_d148b019 |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Used to great effect. From the 2003 winners: Others: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_d148b019 |
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Gamebooks |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_d3f9fdb3 |
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Gamebooks: The 2017 winner is in the style of one of these. |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_d3f9fdb3 |
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Meaningless Meaningful Words |
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Meaningless Meaningful Words: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_d64491d8 |
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Male Gaze |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_dfb71617 |
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Male Gaze: Parodied too many times to list. One clumsy attempt to defy it: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_dfb71617 |
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Animal Motifs |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_e2ccee25 |
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Animal Motifs: "Attempted" here, in the 2011 contest: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_e2ccee25 |
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Pokémon Speak |
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Pokémon Speak: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_e58e0124 |
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Accidental Aesop |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_e6730c11 |
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Accidental Aesop:invoked Cadre notes that a "young ponyless reader" would draw some damaging conclusions from this. Presumably the hypothetical bad author did not intend to emotionally scar little girls... |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_e6730c11 |
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Groin Attack |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_eaf5a1ac |
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Groin Attack: And it's a doozy: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_eaf5a1ac |
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Food Porn |
| | Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_f23ad6de |
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Food Porn: This trope's commonness in fantasy novels is parodied here: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_f23ad6de |
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Innocent Innuendo |
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Innocent Innuendo: From 2006: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_f288cf3 |
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Comically Missing the Point |
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Comically Missing the Point: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_fbd285b7 |
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Department of Redundancy Department |
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Department of Redundancy Department: A lot of entries run off of this, going by the (correct) assumption that needless rambling is likely to make any decent writer or reader pluck their eyes out. |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_fc151e9d |
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Robosexual |
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Robosexual: Inverted here in the 2011 entries: |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_fcf6bca9 |
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Buffy Speak |
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Buffy Speak: |
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ItemName |
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Lyttle Lytton Contest |
