World's Worst Writing "Honored"
The Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Contest has announced its 2005 winners. This annual contest, named for the guy people have dubbed the worst published writer in the English language, challenges participants to pen the most atrocious, overwritten first line of a book.The 2005 winner, Daniel McKay of Fargo, ND, afflicted the world with this:
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the Dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual.Scroll down the Contest's home page for other fun stuff, including bad examples of published writing, bad sex writing, and a link to a quiz: "Dickens or Bulwer-Lytton?" Betcha you flunk it, too.
Think I'll try my hand at next year's contest. Would it hurt my reputation if I won?
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