WWW - Wretched Writers Welcome

"It was a dark and stormy night...Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. "

Sign me up. Pronto! The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

There's only one thing that could make this post any better. You got it. here's the past winners:

The camel died quite suddenly on the second day... Gail Cain, San Francisco, California

The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of the warrior-chief Beast... Steven Garman, Pensacola, Florida

The countdown had stalled at T minus 69 seconds when Desire... Martha Simpson, Glastonbury, Connecticut

The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two... Patricia E. Presutti, Lewiston, New York

Read the full entries here.

Hey, I can do a lot worse. Without trying.

And, here's one more feature writer who's been reading The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, and makes ample use of their tag-line to heap coal on the wretched writers of memos and e-mail.

In other news, a virtual class for writers taught by bestselling author Bonnie Hearn Hill drew a near-capacity classroom of participants from California, Colorado, Texas, Arkansas, and as far away as Australia.

Pastor Harley Todd does a very good job of convincing readers that the writers of the Bible were divinely inspired.