For my next project I have decided to enter the Real Good Toys General Store Challenge. For this contest, we are invited to create a miniature store of our choosing using the Real Good Toys kit.
I confess that I am partial to both miniature stores and contests. While I wait for my kit to arrive, I will describe some of the contests I have entered to date.
Adam Cadre Lyttle Lytton Contest
The Lyttle Lytton Contest is a shorter version of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which challenges entrants to write the worst possible introductory sentence to a novel. Adam Cadre's Lyttle Lytton contest offers the same challenge, but the sentence must be 30 words or less.
I am proud to say that I received honorable mentions in the 2007 and 2009 contests, which pleased me disproportionately. But the finest moment of all was when Megan's entry placed in 2010. Here was Megan's entry:
"Once upon a time, there was a talking lamp whose lightbulb fell out and
hit a person and the person got shocked and destroyed everything."
Cadre wrote of her entry, "This is such an uncanny recreation of the way five-year-olds tell stories that I assume that the Axe Cop audience would buy up the entire first printing." Megan was actually six when she wrote this, not five, but close enough.
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