#TIL The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges participants to write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written.
2024 winner: "She had a body that reached out and slapped my face like a five-pound ham-hock tossed from a speeding truck."
https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/winners
#writing
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