This, a Winner, and That part 4

MOOD STATUS: "Tired". The heat has finally gotten to me...

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by Writer Routine Wednesday to say hi and hear about Kristen's writing routine!

But, yes, now the important part: the book winner. :)

The winner of Kristen Painter's book ALL FIRED UP is...


CrystalGB!!

Congrats!!

Please e-mail me the address you'd like the book sent to and I'll let Kristen know.
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And now for a little of this and that...

I meant to blog about this last week but forgot. Have you seen the winners of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest? It's a contest for BAD writing that San Jose State University has sponsored since 1982. Yes, bad writing.

Check out what won top prize:

"For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss--a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil."
--Molly Ringle

The literary competition honors the memory of writer Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who famously opened his 1830 novel "Paul Clifford, with the much-quoted, "It was a dark and stormy night." Entrants were asked to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels in various categories.

This won the detective category:

"She walked into my office wearing a body that would make a man write bad checks, but in this paperless age you would first have to obtain her ABA Routing Transit Number and Account Number and then disable your own Overdraft Protection in order to do so."
~Steve Lynch

(That one cracked me up!)

This won the western category:

"He walked into the bar and bristled when all eyes fell upon him - perhaps because his build was so short and so wide, or maybe it was the odor that lingered about him from so many days and nights spent in the wilds, but it may just have been because no one had ever seen a porcupine in a bar before."
~Linda Boatright



See? Don't you feel better about your own opening sentence now? :)



Have a great weekend!