TheBanyanTree: Thought you all would get a smile o ut of this. I did...and a few groans!

[Sharon Mack]

I'll be looking forward to that novel, I'm sure (as she smirks behind
her left hand).
 
Oops!  Did I say that?
 
:-)  Sharon

>>> Mike Pingleton <pingleto at ncsa.uiuc.edu> 2/14/2006 4:08:46 PM >>>

We had a similar little contest in the Tree about five years ago,
Sharon - 
Worst Opening Line Of The Worst Novel or some such thing.

One of my entries:

"The church bulletin gave me the clue I was looking for - 'due to the
fire
at St. Elmo's, Saturday's dance will be held at St. Vitus' - I knew
then
that my client was innocent, and that somehow, the murderous deacon at
Our
Lady of Perpetual Motion had to be stopped."

from my forthcoming novel _A Right Cross at the Wrong Time_...

Mike

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 02:01 pm, Sharon Mack wrote:
> Thought you all would get a smile out of this.  I did...and a few
> groans!
>
> Listed below are the 10 winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton
Contest,
> a.k.a. the "Dark and Stormy Night Contest," run by the English
> Department of San Jose State University, California, wherein one
writes
> only the first line of a bad novel.