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First Sentence competition? WAS RE: How to write an epic fantasy best seller

Thu Oct 14 11:26:25 PDT 2004


-----Original Message-----
From: John Klein [mailto:zarkon at illrepute.org] 
Sent: 14 October 2004 15:08
To: 'dragaera list'
Subject: Re: First Sentence competition? WAS RE: How to write an epic
fantasy best seller

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Mark Tiller wrote:

@> I don't know, we could try.  How about a competition for worst opening
@> sentence al la "It was a dark and stormy night".  Said sentence limited
to
@> no more than...oohhh...two pages? :-)
@>
@> Any volunteers to be judges?  (there is one logical choice, but I'm
@> reluctant to ask).

>http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

I know, I've looked at the site, that's one of the things that inspired me
to suggest it.  I just thought it would be a bit of fun for the list.

Cheers

Mark