For those not familiar with the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, it's an annual competition open to all and sundry to write a terrible opening sentence to a novel, short story, or vignette. Here's the website.

I challenge each of you to read some of these rotten gems and not laugh out loud. The 2020 winner is shown below.

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Her Dear John missive flapped unambiguously in the windy breeze, hanging like a pizza menu on the doorknob of my mind.

(by Lisa Kluber)


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing