YOU'VE GOTTA BE GOOD TO BE BAD

An Alabama woman who penned a cheesy romance manuscript has been awarded first prize in the 22nd annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. As cruel as this may sound, the object of the contest is to author as trite and cliched a manuscript as possible, and as fact that the winner is a well-paid humor writer shows, it takes a creative wordsmith to script award-winning drivel. Take this sentence, for instance: "They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that two-flavor entwined string cheese that is orange and yellowish-white..." This blog is seriously considering entering the contest, but the sad part is, its overuse of cliches is anything but deliberate.