{"id":3980,"date":"2009-10-28T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2009-10-28T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T08:00:51","slug":"tips-on-winning-the-bulwer-lytton-fiction-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3980","title":{"rendered":"Tips on Winning the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or so it would seem<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writebadlywell.blogspot.com\/\">Blog:  how to write badly well<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For instance, in <a href=\"http:\/\/writebadlywell.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/skip-blithely-between-tenses.html\">Skip blithely between tenses<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I sit at my desk with my head in my hands and sighed. It is only three days until the deadline, I think, and I\u2019m going to have had to finished everything before then. If only I have finish this now, I thought and lean back on my chair. Just then, the phone has rung. I am answering it.<br \/>\n\u2018Hello?\u2019 I am going to have said. It is my boss; he was angry, but not as angry as I remember him being when I am handing in the work late, four days from now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Is this work going to have been finished when it is currently the deadline which, at present, is in the future?\u2019 he demanded. \u2018I am planning to have been waiting for it, as I presently am.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bad writing.  <a href=\"http:\/\/snlarc.jt.org\/char.php?i=31\">Leonard Pinth-Garnell<\/a> would approve, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>And no forgetting a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/\">Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest<\/a> itself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or so it would seem Blog: how to write badly well For instance, in Skip blithely between tenses I sit at my desk with my head in my hands and sighed. It is only three days until the deadline, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3980\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}