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Best Bad Writing: Show Us Yours

The results of San Jose State University’s annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest — finding deliberately bad writing — are out. The winner’s entry begins:
   “As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire…”

– From Dan Gillmor   


Mine: “It was a dark and stormy night. Karl Rove stared out the window at the tall turgid Washington Monument, partly shrouded in dark swirling clouds, and unbuttoned his shirt …”

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