Homage to Snoopy

Ever thought about writing a book? Once you get past all that pesky character development and plot outlining, there stands before you perhaps the biggest challenge: the opening line. Here's the place that will have them buying your book, or putting it back on the shelf. No pressure there at all!

So here's a contest for you to get it out of your system - a contest for the worst opening line. You don't even have to write the rest of the book! Just come up with your very own version of "It was a dark and stormy night..." and submit to the kind folks at the Bulwer-Lyon Fiction Contest (so named for the chap that penned that awful line).

Kudos to The Blog That Ate Manhattan for sharing this - check out her entry... it is delightfully dreadful.