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A yearly competition run by Creator/AdamCadre since 2001, where people compete to submit [[StylisticSuck the most atrocious opening line to a novel they can think of]], reaching for [[SoBadItsGood maximum entertainment]]. The contest is a derivative of the annual Literature/BulwerLyttonFictionContest, which has the same purpose; Cadre started Lyttle Lytton when entries in the original contest started getting too [[WallOfText unwieldy]] for his taste (the initial rules for the competition stipulated that an entry could feature no more than 33 words. The rules have since been revised such that the total length of an entrant's combined entries can be no greater than 200 characters).

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A yearly competition run by Creator/AdamCadre since 2001, where people compete to submit [[StylisticSuck the most atrocious opening line to a novel they can think of]], reaching for [[SoBadItsGood maximum entertainment]]. The contest is a derivative of entertainment]] without completely sacrificing plausibility. It's inspired by, but not affiliated with, the annual Literature/BulwerLyttonFictionContest, which has the same purpose; Literature/BulwerLyttonFictionContest.

Cadre started Lyttle Lytton when entries in the original contest started getting too [[WallOfText unwieldy]] for his taste (the taste. The initial rules for the competition L. L. stipulated that an entry could feature no more than 33 words. The While the rules have been tweaked a few times since been revised such that the total length of an entrant's combined entries can then, they still force entrants to keep things brief. The average Bulwer-Lytton entry would be no greater than 200 characters).
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* {{Mesodiplosis}}: The 2008 Fantasy Fiction winner, uses "Of" Mesodiplosis for song lyrics presumably because it makes it easy to continue singing by just listing other possessions:
-->"Toads of glory, slugs of joy," sang Groin the dwarf as he trotted jovially down the path before a great dragon ate him because the author knew that this story was a train wreck after he typed the first few words. -- Alex Hall, Greeley, CO
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* {{Mesodiplosis}}: The 2008 Fantasy Fiction winner, uses "Of" Mesodiplosis for song lyrics presumably because it makes it easy to continue singing by just listing other possessions:
-->"Toads of glory, slugs of joy," sang Groin the dwarf as he trotted jovially down the path before a great dragon ate him because the author knew that this story was a train wreck after he typed the first few words. — Alex Hall, Greeley, CO

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