I finally did something I should have done years ago: I entered the Bulwer-Lytton contest

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For those of you who know nothing about Bulwer-Lytton, he was the author of one of the most famous run-on sentences in literature ("It was a dark and stormy night......"), and the contest is devoted to that same, run-on sentence genre of literature, which, in other words, is exactly the sort of thing writers should avoid at all costs.

But I had been writing yesterday about something, and I came up with an entry which I hope would make Bulwer-Lytton happy, and thought the contest would be fun to enter.

So I took that sentence from yesterday, and then wrote another entry this afternoon, so I made two entries. I might even have time to write a third or fourth, ot even more! entry!

Here are my entries. Just remember--it has to be one sentence only, the beginning of a larger work, and lightly convoluted.

"Twenty-four hours passed quickly, like the time you spend on a carousel, and how fast it's over, but you know it should be the length of time you spend in a dentist's chair, which seems to go on forever, and you holler in pain, hoping you could just get out of that chair and never go to the dentist again."


"All I could see were golden fields of grain wafting in the light summer breeze, the cobalt blue sky hanging at noon--the rest of the world near forgotten by the immersion I felt, standing there, trying to figure out why a serial killer would want to despoil this grain filled masterpiece with the reddest of blood, and taint the attraction of a hard-working middle America."


Let me know if they are truly worthy of the Bulwer-Lytton school of writing. :)

[PassingFair]

1. That second one was pretty horrific.

Success!

[TheCentepedeShoes]

2. I forgot I had written up some

last year but never sent in
Here is one:
Rounding yet another treacherous curve through
Victor Pass, bound with a load of serum to treat the
diphtheria victims in Cripple Creek, stagecoach driver
Slim and passengers Dr Cranwell and nurse Perkins
could not help but be mindful of the Audi 5000 that had
plunged from this very road just last year.