Scott Rice, a San Jose State English teacher, who really does like to teach writing, sat there thinking, alone on a dark night in 1981, and as the nights were then and are now even without storms, which are dark too, he pondered how to get students writing more and thinking about good writing and bad writing, although spoken language is good too, the professor would have hastened to add if were asked that night, which he wasn't.

BOTTOM LINE - the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest celebrates the best of bad writing - and this year's results are in:

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2003.htm

It promises to provide laughter.

Sincerely,

Gargoyle