A Contest Made for Roasters. Are You Up to the Challenge?
Slate has announced a contest obviously conceived and written with us in mind - Write Like Sarah Palin! Slate explains:
What is the single worst sentence in Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue? According to Slate’s Going Rogue index, it comes on Page 102: “As the soles of my shoes hit the soft ground, I pushed past the tall cottonwood trees in a euphoric cadence, and meandered through willow branches that the moose munched on.” Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times didn’t have to read past the first paragraph for her nomination: “I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged splashes of the Last Frontier.”
These sentences have the markings of what might be called the high Palin style (her writing, as opposed to her speeches): multiple references to local flora and fauna, heavy use of PSAT vocabulary, slightly defensive tone, difficult-to-parse meaning.
Do you think you can write like Sarah Palin? If so, we want to hear from you. The goal is to write a sentence that could be mistaken for one from her book. Keep it to a single sentence of fewer than 150 words and send your entry to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by Wednesday. We’ll publish our favorites later in the week.
Go and do the needful* troops and report your results back here in comments. Obviously, after this and the Weblog Awards, 2009 will be remembered as the year of the Rumproast.
*In honor of our hosting the Indian Prime Minister and his wife, I have shared a common Indian phrase used frequently by my co-workers in Bangalore.
Posted by gimmeabreak on 11/24/09 at 12:17 PM • Permalink
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