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July 11th, 2006

And now, an award for bad writing

Apparently, there’s a contest set up to recognize bad writing - and there has been since 1982. Jim Guigli won it after entering 64 pieces.

In the end, the judges decided that this was the worst of them:

Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you’ve had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean.

AP has the full story.


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