Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Jul 23 2004
The First Line Is Always The Contest
I love the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. I always intend to enter, but get distracted with everyday things and never make it in time. Winners in past years wrote these.
Those long entries, straining at the bit with underscored humor, saddled with maverick clauses corraled at the whim of some unseen ghost rider's rope, often changing horses in mid-stream and cutting one-thought-too-many out of the herd, and often branding the whole thought irrelevant to the rest of the oncoming stampede, could surely give a reader the idea that brevity was shot and left for buzzards to surround, back on some lonesome trail.
And so someone did The Lyttle Lytton Contest.
posted at: 07:39 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
I love the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. I always intend to enter, but get distracted with everyday things and never make it in time. Winners in past years wrote these.
Those long entries, straining at the bit with underscored humor, saddled with maverick clauses corraled at the whim of some unseen ghost rider's rope, often changing horses in mid-stream and cutting one-thought-too-many out of the herd, and often branding the whole thought irrelevant to the rest of the oncoming stampede, could surely give a reader the idea that brevity was shot and left for buzzards to surround, back on some lonesome trail.
And so someone did The Lyttle Lytton Contest.
posted at: 07:39 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry