Finally, some Good News for Martha Stewart. A California man claimed top honors Monday at the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest celebrating bad writing, likening the end of a love affair to “Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp’s tail.”
Dave Zobel, 42, a Manhattan Beach software development director and author of “Dave Zobel’s Bent Book of Boatspeak: How to Sound Like a Sailor and Know Just Enough to Be Dangerous,” bested thousands of metaphor-mangling, simile-slaying writers from Hong Kong to Bolivia with his submission.
maybe…
you should invite him to be an LIS News author?
and the other disreputables
Here’s the site with the complete 2004 Bulwer-Lytton results:
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2004.htm