It started as a conversation about NaNoWriMo and other writing projects in which I expressed my disbelief that anyone could manage to write 500 words a day. Although in a slightly less articulate form - I believe the words 'as if!' were uttered.
But then
sarcasma pointed out that I write something on LJ nearly every day, and some of those entries get close to 500 words, and I thought, well, hey, then why don't I just pretend that LJ is my novel?
And FauxNoWriMo was born.
I found a book to steal the chapter titles from (because I was too lazy to make up my own) and vowed to write every day in November and see how many words I ended up with. Of course, I didn't look that hard for a book, so I ended up with one that had 35 chapters, so I had to write even more. Horrors!
Final tally: I wrote nearly every day - I missed the one day that I was home sick from work. And apparently I wrote 8366 words, which is...really not much. And not even close to 500 a day. Bwa.
Still, that's a lot of entries, for me. I may never write anything again.
ETA: Erm, the book is Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. Which you should read if you haven't. Yes, I mean you! I was going to make you all guess, but someone brought it up in my comments a few days ago, which would have made it much too easy. :)
But then
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And FauxNoWriMo was born.
I found a book to steal the chapter titles from (because I was too lazy to make up my own) and vowed to write every day in November and see how many words I ended up with. Of course, I didn't look that hard for a book, so I ended up with one that had 35 chapters, so I had to write even more. Horrors!
Final tally: I wrote nearly every day - I missed the one day that I was home sick from work. And apparently I wrote 8366 words, which is...really not much. And not even close to 500 a day. Bwa.
Still, that's a lot of entries, for me. I may never write anything again.
ETA: Erm, the book is Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. Which you should read if you haven't. Yes, I mean you! I was going to make you all guess, but someone brought it up in my comments a few days ago, which would have made it much too easy. :)