"I know what you're thinking, punk," hissed Wordy Harry to his new editor, "you're thinking, 'Did he use six superfluous adjectives or only five?' - and to tell the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement; but being as this is English, the most powerful language in the world, whose subtle nuances will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' - well do you, punk?"
Stuart Vasepuru
Edinburgh, Scotland
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
I have read these before, but must admit the runner up really has me laughing!
Suzanne D. Williams, Author
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
Took me a minute to get that one.Oh, no! It's Unclean Harold!
Suzanne D. Williams, Author
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
I read Hemingway once and couldn't get into his style of character conversation. It seemed unnatural and choppy to me. In any case, I've not heard of the bad Hemingway contest. In light of my opinion of Hemingway, they are either really bad or much better.Ahhh, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Also I love the bad Hemingway contests. They are good.
Suzanne D. Williams, Author
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
Suze, funny you should mention loquacious
mark bin-dere-dun-dat Bailey
I guess y'all really don't need me anymore.
mark bin-dere-dun-dat Bailey
I guess y'all really don't need me anymore.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life, Make the most of it...
kb
Great minds think alike eh?Suze, funny you should mention loquacious
mark bin-dere-dun-dat Bailey
I guess y'all really don't need me anymore.
Suzanne D. Williams, Author
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
Hemingway did have his eloquent moments:I read Hemingway once and couldn't get into his style of character conversation. It seemed unnatural and choppy to me. In any case, I've not heard of the bad Hemingway contest. In light of my opinion of Hemingway, they are either really bad or much better.Ahhh, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Also I love the bad Hemingway contests. They are good.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ― Ernest Hemingway
Nor did I mean to totally discount everything Hemingway has written. I just did not care for his style of writing.Hemingway did have his eloquent moments:They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ― Ernest Hemingway
Suzanne D. Williams, Author
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
Thanks for the B-W link!I read Hemingway once and couldn't get into his style of character conversation. It seemed unnatural and choppy to me. In any case, I've not heard of the bad Hemingway contest. In light of my opinion of Hemingway, they are either really bad or much better.Ahhh, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Also I love the bad Hemingway contests. They are good.
Unnatural and choppy?
Hemingway?
No. Natural and choppy. Mostly men speaking. REAL men thought Hemingway wordy. His characters used words. Didn't grunt and point. His characters spoke briefly. They spoke directly. They spoke true. They spoke this way before fighting for their country. Or fishing. Or hunting, or maybe drinking. When drinking they spoke briefly and true. Again.
Sorry...I think I was channeling there for a minute...
LOL. Channel on. It was the "briefly, directly" I did not like. I kept thinking, "No one talks like that."Thanks for the B-W link!
Unnatural and choppy?
Hemingway?
No. Natural and choppy. Mostly men speaking. REAL men thought Hemingway wordy. His characters used words. Didn't grunt and point. His characters spoke briefly. They spoke directly. They spoke true. They spoke this way before fighting for their country. Or fishing. Or hunting, or maybe drinking. When drinking they spoke briefly and true. Again.
Sorry...I think I was channeling there for a minute...
Suzanne D. Williams, Author
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
Very nice, skinem! For the unsure, there's a javascript generator (with a link to three chapters of an inactive Bad Hemingway story) to help find your inner Heming. This is one site. There are others.Unnatural and choppy?
Hemingway?
No. Natural and choppy. Mostly men speaking. REAL men thought Hemingway wordy. His characters used words. Didn't grunt and point. His characters spoke briefly. They spoke directly. They spoke true. They spoke this way before fighting for their country. Or fishing. Or hunting, or maybe drinking. When drinking they spoke briefly and true. Again.
Sorry...I think I was channeling there for a minute...
It is written with gusto. It is written for laughs and the joy that comes from bad writing.
The writers of "A Bad Hemingway Story" struggle with the short sentences and the runon sentences and the pointless but rich descriptions for that is what writers of Bad Hemingway must do.
They write. They use email lists to write. They use the keyboard and the mouse. But most of all they write.
Thanks for that link, gailr. Though I did not read it all, I can say it was truly "Bad Hemingway"!
Suzanne D. Williams, Author
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
http://www.feelgoodromance.com
-
- Great Grand Panjandrum
- Posts: 2578
- Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:56 pm
- Location: Crownsville, MD
Hmmm. I wonder when Hemingway wrote that; it almost sounds like he's quoting from Wilfred Owens' Dulce Et Decorum Est, but maybe he, too, was quoting Horace....
Hemingway did have his eloquent moments:They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ― Ernest Hemingway
Wikipedia says the poem was written in 1917 but published posthumously in 1921.
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 6 guests