Intentionally Bad Writing.

The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest winners have been announced, and a woman from Beaconsfield (a suburb of Montreal) wsa named runner up to the grand prize. You can see the entire 2004 Results here. If you’re not familiar with the contest, here’s the basic idea: “An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.”