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Novel Prep
Friday. 3.6.09 2:41 pm
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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Sunday. 8.23.09 5:40 pm
Let's see. Update. What should I tell you? Still single. Bah humbug. Finished my poems for the poetry competition and submitted them. Didn't chicken out because my childhood idol poet is the judge. Fairly proud of myself about that. Had another visit to the ER because the knee was acting weird. God, I hate the ER. Now, they referred me to a pain specialist which I wanted before but no one would refer me too. I think they're just tired of me coming in there.

Spent lots of time planning this crazy three day novel adventure. One of the things I'm doing to prepare is getting my guest room ready for my typist to come and stay over. In order for that to happen, I need to get a new vacuum, new sheets, and move my extra chairs against the wall. I've already drafted a specific assistant to this job.

In other news, I'm going to the NAMAC conference in Boston. I hope my knee doesn't give me any trouble. It seems to be on a two week cycle. It'll be fine and even seems to be getting better. But then, exactly fourteen days from it's last flair it will act up again. I know. I've been keeping track. Oddly enough, I'm starting to dread Saturday. The next flair day if this schedule keeps up is during the three day novel contest. That's totally unacceptable. I'll go to the doctor and see what he can offer me. I'll even take scary drugs or consider surgery and for me, as you know, is a lot. But, I just want it to stop and my life to go back to normal.

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