Lyttle Fannish Lytton, hoppin' through the forest....

[tzikeh]

The Bulwer-Lytton Contest is held every year by the English Department at San Jose State University. The goal is simple - write the opening sentence to the world's worst novel. The contest now has a spin-off, called Lyttle Lytton, which restricts the entry to a maximum of thirty words (probably due to the fact that many entries in the Bulwer-Lytton contest were sentences that could have made Joyce ask for a bathroom break). Those thirty words can be in the form of more than one sentence, as well, which also helps a bit.

esorlehcar has put forth the idea of running a Fannish Lyttle Lytton contest during the summer. It's open to anyone, any fandom, any genre of fanfiction. You guys should totally go here and play.

Comments

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

Man, I remember taking part in the first Buffy Bulwer-Lytton, back in the days when TWoP was MBTV. [/random nostalgia]

[feochadn.livejournal.com]

Even more random nostaglia: several years ago I splurged on my birthday and bought two Harpers Weekly issues from 1861 and 1864 (the 1861 one has the report of the firing on Fort Sumter). It also has the first installament of the "newest, much anticipated" Bulwer-Lytton serialized novel.
On the FRONT page.
And wow, he IS bad...