It was a dark night. Exactly what you would expect night to be. But then you add some stormy to that, and you've got a hook for a book. And one of the greatest opening lines to a Snoopy comic ever...
Some of the others make me squirm too...but right up my alley. I may have a humour problem. I think the Stanley Ruddlethorp sentence is very funny, and a bit morbid - yes. But so perfect.
"Come on, baby, fight my lyre!" - Oh, Jeez! Hilarious. I can write bad opening lines. But they aren't on purpose.🤔 Thanks for the great start to my day!
The one about Myers-Briggs and Rorshach is funny. The rest of them are pretty creepy! Thanks for sharing! I now have so many ways NOT to start my novel.
Brilliant!
And doesn’t the dark and stormy Desiree make you squirm just a little?
Some of the others make me squirm too...but right up my alley. I may have a humour problem. I think the Stanley Ruddlethorp sentence is very funny, and a bit morbid - yes. But so perfect.
I’ve been asked to ‘edit’ passages worse (better?) than the Stanley R piece. Done deliberately, it’s genius…
It's fun to go through some of the archives. Some are truly genius. Lots of puns too.
ugh! vomitorium!
but I had to guffaw at "...fight my lyre!"
Love the puns
God, it is so hard to write humor. Maybe I do so by accident? 😕
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"Come on, baby, fight my lyre!" - Oh, Jeez! Hilarious. I can write bad opening lines. But they aren't on purpose.🤔 Thanks for the great start to my day!
Awesome, James!
These are so bad, they hit me like an Acme anvil dropped from a cliff by a cartoon coyote.
I could get stuck reading these for days. Thanks Paul.
Nice. LOL!
….what a great reminder of a truly amazing contest…i could read bad sentences all day (opens substack notes…proceeds to do just that)…
Sometimes true:)
The one about Myers-Briggs and Rorshach is funny. The rest of them are pretty creepy! Thanks for sharing! I now have so many ways NOT to start my novel.
I think I have a strange sense of humor.