Let’s kick off National Book Month with some terrible writing, shall we?
Check out this year’s grand prize winner for “most atrocious opening sentence to a hypothetical bad novel,” written by Maxwell Archer of Ontario, Canada:
“Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud of smoke, maintaining the same forlorn frown that had been fixed upon his face since he’d accidentally destroyed the phenomenon known as time, thirteen inches ago.”
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a real thing. Every year since 1982, the contest challenges writers to craft hilariously bad sentences, and the winning entries are worth checking out.
Feeling uninspired? Submissions are now being accepted for 2020.
In related news, here, local authors talk about the triumphs and trials of being a writer.
And speaking of triumph and trial, let’s talk about Sunday’s Chattanooga Ironman athletes and how they endured the relentless heat.
And, is it the end of an era for Northshore’s Nikki’s Drive-Inn? A Chattanooga developer is looking at building a condominium on a tract where the longtime eatery now sits.