Fannish Bulwer-Lytton Contest!

[trinityofone]

Smart Bitches Trashy Books is having a contest in honor of the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Winners. Two years ago, I held a similar contest. I feel like it's time to bring it back—with a vengeance!

Here are the rules:

1. Comment with the worst sentence you can imagine opening a fic. I am opening this up to any and all fandoms this year, with the caveat that, as the initial judge, I may be more partial to fandoms I am familiar with. Note: the sentence should be a sentence. Crazy punctuation is fine and even encouraged, but opening paragraphs will not be counted. ETA: You're welcome to make as many entries as you like. I'd recommend one per comment for clarity, but I'm not gonna be a stickler on that.

2. On Thursday morning-ish, I will choose my ten favorite entries for everyone to vote on. Feel free to comment on your favorite entries; my opinions on matters unpolitical can often be swayed. ;-)

3. Voting will run through the weekend; on Monday I will announce the winners and possibly some runners-up. There will be prizes! (Most likely a selection of used books on numerous enchanting subjects.)

4. Feel free to link! Let's see if we can make this an omnifannish extravaganza.

And...go!

Comments

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

Rodney stared down in awe at the bulging stomach creating life before his very eyes, knowing there would be skepticism and scorn from the others later but that, for now at least, Teyla’s baby was safe inside him.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

...I have read EXACTLY this fic in [fandom withheld to preserve the dignity of everyone involved].

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

...Farscape kinda made that fic canon. But in a good way.

*ducks and runs*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

*wishes, once again, that she'd got beyond S1*

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, you really should try. Seasons 2 and 3 and the last half of four are fantastic, as is (are?) The Peacekeeper Wars.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I still think Farscape went a long way to embrace the idea of "Take every lame or backwards or embarrassing-to-read sci-fi/fantasy story idea, and give it to us, because we will make it awesome and funny and we might even make you cry, you cynical biotches."

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

I love Farscape, and miss it still.

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

*g* I don't know whether to laugh, or be scared...

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

*flails, tries to cover eyes, misses, pokes out own eyes*

[ladyoflisquill.livejournal.com]

So I actually want this fic.

::slaps self::

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

Hee! Reading through a lot of these, I can't help but think of all the wonderful crack fic that could come out of them.