UPDATE! WE’RE EXTENDING THE DEADLINE FOR PROMPT #4 TO THE END OF FEBRUARY. YOU STILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO GIVE US YOUR WORST OPENING SENTENCES!
Every year, writers enter the Bulwer-Lytton contest by trying to write the best bad opening sentences.
Let’s start 2016 off right by having our own version: The Teen Writers Conference Bad Beginnings Contest!
GIVE US YOUR BEST
BAD OPENING SENTENCES!
Check out examples of past winners and suggestions for particularly excellently atrocious sentences on the official Bulwer-Lytton site.
After your creative juices are flowing, write your own awful opening sentence.
You may enter three wonderfully bad sentences.
Winner receives an e-book copy of the Love Letters collection from Timeless Romance Anthologies, which has six fun (clean) romantic novellas all with one common thread: a love letter plays an important part in the plot. The anthology has three contemporary stories and three historical stories, two of which were written by TWC board members, Heather B. Moore and Annette Lyon.
*** Ready, set, go! ****
CONTEST RULES:
- Content must be PG-rated.
- Keep entries to 60 words or fewer.
- Paste your entries into the comments of THIS post BY FEBRUARY 29. (This is the extended deadline!) Up to THREE entries per person will be accepted, but each should be a separate comment.
- Winner will be determined by random drawing.
- Include your email address so we can reach you if you win!
- Any prize unclaimed within 1 week of announcing the winning entry is forfeit.
- Entries suspected of violating the rules and/or of plagiarism will be deemed ineligible. Such entrants may not be notified that their entry has been disqualified.
The Teen Writers Conference 
Hello! My name is Mary Sue, and this is the story of my most perfect day!
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Sapphire Dreamcloud Beautyblossom had had a perfectly normal life, but all of that changed when Mystery Emo-Style Ravenhair moved in next door.
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Annebelle,
Congratulations–you’re the winner of this contest!
Please email me from the address you’d like the electronic copy of the LOVE LETTER COLLECTION to be sent to, and be sure to mention whether you need Kindle or another ebook format.
Happy reading (and writing)!
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Oh, and send your message to this address: annette (at) annettelyon (dot) com
🙂
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It wasn’t until the blaring alarm went off at 222 Jerman Lane, the old house that slumped like a tired elder who had lost his cane, that the entire town knew that something was amiss.
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A grey cloud came over Mary as her feet ran faster in the woods. The boy chasing her was just behind the girl. A hot sweat broke out on the girls face but she kept running from the man that would kill her…. BAM!! Mary wakes up in with hot sweat dripping down her face from the petrifying dream.
you should never start with a dream…
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