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Re:How to Begin a Novel by DrScump on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:30PM (#21591190)
Most of this strikes me as mundane word salad, none of which can compare with human-composed entries to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest[0]. It seeks "an atrocious opening sentence to a hypothetical bad novel."

This year's winner:

"Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud of smoke, maintaining the same forlorn frown that had been fixed upon his face since he’d accidentally destroyed the phenomenon known as time, thirteen inches ago."

[0] https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2019

Re:How to Begin a Novel by shantly on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:47PM (#21591270)
Don't forget the Lyttle Lytton! Same thing, lower word limit.

http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html

The earlier ones are better IMO but the "found" category is always good for a laugh.

Re:How to Begin a Novel by rimliu on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:32AM (#21593124)
The first thing it reminded me of was this:

   Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel
   Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon
   when his father took him to discover ice.