I'm going to enter the three day novel contest over Labor Day weekend. You write an entire novel in three days. I'm going to call my novel Detritus (that's a synonym for garbage). The reason I'm calling it that is because it's based on this new idea I have called language fiction. Language fiction is kind of based on language poetry which focuses on the sound of words and popular culture in order to create literary works that really make no sense. I know because I've written them.

The idea for Detritus the book is to have 100 topics because the average novel length for this contest is 100 pages according to the website. Every page will feature a separate topic, and I will just write down random things that that topic makes me think about until I fill a page. Some topics may take up more than one page but it's a one page minimum. The topic I'm most excited to write about is while I'm writing the novel the T.V. will be playing in the background and every time I hear an interesting phrase or think of an interesting thought based on what the T.V. says I will flick between the page I'm currently working on and the page which will i think be last in the book entitled 24 hour T.V. thoughts.

I'm looking forward to writing this book. I'm not sure people will like it but then I really don't care. Since I was exposed to language poetry, it's kind of been under my skin as I don't like it as a genre per se. I'm hoping this experience will exorcise the genre from my system.

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