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@quadrivial Good job on your entry, by the way. Maybe we could start an unofficial #BulwerLytton contest on fedi instead.
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As the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals when it was checked by a violent gust of wind that swept up the streets, Stark checked his Thieves Guild tag (for it is in Ankh-Morkpork that our story lies) and glanced along the street where a magically illuminated sign flickered futilely against the darkness, causing him to comment to his companion, "You know, Dormy, I think this is going to be our night!"
#microfiction #tootfic #TerryPratchett #fanfic #pun #BulwerLytton
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Passion
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
slip:4a1546.
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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2024 winners have been announced! Some of these are hilarious!
If you don't know what this contest is: "Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels." The novels do not actually exist.
https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2024
#BulwerLytton #Writing #Fiction #OpeningLines #blfc2024 -
It was a dark and stormy night, the inky pools of shadow in the sparsely furnished room punctuated only by jittery flashes of lightning and the throbbing #065a8f rather than #006699 blue background and glowing scroll of resolute white text and flirtatious lime green links as styled by the Modern Dark theme (for it is on Metafilter.com that our scene lies) emanating from the sleepless reader's laptop screen.
https://www.metafilter.com/205160/2024-Bulwer-Lytton-winners-announced
#Bulwer #BulwerLytton #DarkAndStormyNight #Lytton #OpeningLines #prizes #winners
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The winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (which challenges entrants to come up with the worst possible opening sentence for a novel) have been posted:
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Edward #BulwerLytton passed away on this date in 1873. A prolific #writer, he is best known today for the opening phrase of his novel Paul Clifford, 'It was a dark and stormy night.'
Read on here, at your peril, #booklovers https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7735/7735-h/7735-h.htm