The real reason I want to meet Scott Rice
Dr. Scott Rice is the originator of the the world-famous Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, an annual competition for would-be writers that challenges them to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
The contest is named after a Victorian novelist, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose novel Paul Clifford bagan with the now-(in)famous line: ”It was a dark and stormy night.”
More can be seen about the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest here: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
Don’t miss the wonderful listings and examples from past winners and runner-up entries. They’re well worth the trip. And maybe I’ll get to make my trip to SJSU someday, and shake the hand of the man who made this all possible.
