[bksvol-discuss] Book submitted: Bride of Dark and Stormy
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:06:04 -0400
Hi you all and now for a funny book. Should be a fairly good proof, smile.
ISBN:
0-14010304-X
Title:
Bride Of Dark And Stormy: Yet More Of The Best (?) From The Bulwer-lytton
Contest (Book 3)
Author(s):
Scott Rice (Editor)
Publisher:
Penguin Group (Canada)
Copyright Date:
1988
Copyrighted By:
Scott Rice
Brief Synopsis:
Writing the worst fiction you could ever come up with is not as easy as it
looks. Enjoy the best and worst of writing in this the third book in the
Dark and Stormy series.
Long Synopsis:
It's not easy to write bad fiction. On purpose. Scott Rice, organizer of
the Bulwer-Lytton contest, asks people to do just that. Here are the best
opening sentences of the worst hypothetical novels never written. Just try
to understand the 1987 winner: "The notes Matted skyward as the sun rose
over the Canada geese, feathered rumps mooning the day, webbed appendages
frantically pedaling unseen bicycles in their search for sustenance, driven
by cruel Nature's maxim, 'ya wanna eat, ya gotta work,' and at last I knew
Pittsburgh." But Bride of Dark and Stormy is not just a compilation. Now
Scott Rice has added his own advice on how to write "successful" fiction in
the Bulwer-Lytton mode, making this a perverse how-to book, full of rotten
advice and worse examples.
Comments:
Has been read through. blank. Should be a fun proof. Page numbers need to
be added to pages where they are missing.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English US
Book Quality:
EXCELLENT
Categories:
Entertainment, Literature and Fiction
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he
does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009)
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