Lyttle Lytton Contenders
The Lyttle Lytton is a contest to come up with the worst possible opening line for a (serious) novel, using 30 words or less. The contest runner’s example, which stands alone in its sheer awkward awfulness, is as follows:
- Jennifer stood there, quietly ovulating. –Adam Cadre
For more hilarious examples of horrible first lines, click through to the contest site.
- A laptop wasn’t much like a banana slug, but that was the least of Jerry’s problems right now.
- A commanding officer in both sense of the word “commanding”, Wedge sighed.
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