PerExWriMo and Silly Stuff
Nov. 5th, 2006 06:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6So far I've only done two days worth of my PerExWriMo (where I'm devoting 2 hours of writing every non-work day). My word count is at 4363. Now that might not seem much compared to you NaNoWriMoers (those who are on track, anyway), but I'm aiming at a more personal goal, and that's far more than I've ever written before on a PerExWriMo.
Right now I'm feeling good about dedicating a block of writing time and may continue it even after November ends. We'll see if that feeling lasts when I run out of the first blush of excitement for the story I'm working on and get into a block where I can't think of anything to write. I'm not doing a novel, either, which helps some. I have the attention span of a gnat sometimes, so I'm flitting back and forth between a number of projects that interest me. Most of the writing (over 3k words) is on a short story I just started and have a good grasp on, with some of the rest split between a few older projects.
And just for fun...
The Wikipedia Random Battle!
The rules: Go to Wikipedia, select Random Article twice, and pit the results against each other:
Round 1: Porn star Keisha vs. The Valley Oak
Results:
A porn star vs a tree.
Fight to the Death result: The porn star has to win this one, since she could use any number of tools to kill the tree, starting with an axe. The tree pretty much has to rely on being lucky enough to drop a branch on her.
Friendly Fight result: The two come to an amicable agreement as the Valley Oak is used as a setting or a prop in an adult film starring Keisha. Considering the specialties listed for Keisha, probably both. Everybody wins.
Round 2: Bottom Meadow a UK sports venue, vs Bradford City Police an English Police department. Pure coincidence that they're both in the same country.
Results:
Fight to the Death result: According to the article, Bottom Meadow seems like a pretty small venue, and probably tennis and soccer mostly. I'm not sure there are many tennis hooligans about, but I've heard a lot about soccer hooligans, so I think if all 2,500 of the maximum attendence swarmed the police, they'd win out.
Friendly Fight result: Hmmm.. I think I still have to go with the potential football hooligans, because even in a friendly fight, they'd probably get brutal.
Round 3: The town of Kununurra in Western Australia, vs. Innerwish, a Greek Power Metal band
Results:
Fight to the Death result: Sheer numbers have to dictate that the 5,000 inhabitants of a small Australian town would tear five greeks apart. Now if it were 10 greeks, it might be a fair fight.
Friendly Fight result: Lacking the bloodlust of an entire town, I'm sure Innerwish would annoy most of the town with its music, except perhaps the younger people who would embrace it just to annoy their parents. The young people would prevent Innerwish from being kicked out of town (unless they really suck, and I have no info on that), so annoyance would be the only point scored, and Innerwish wins.
Right now I'm feeling good about dedicating a block of writing time and may continue it even after November ends. We'll see if that feeling lasts when I run out of the first blush of excitement for the story I'm working on and get into a block where I can't think of anything to write. I'm not doing a novel, either, which helps some. I have the attention span of a gnat sometimes, so I'm flitting back and forth between a number of projects that interest me. Most of the writing (over 3k words) is on a short story I just started and have a good grasp on, with some of the rest split between a few older projects.
And just for fun...
The Wikipedia Random Battle!
The rules: Go to Wikipedia, select Random Article twice, and pit the results against each other:
Round 1: Porn star Keisha vs. The Valley Oak
Results:
A porn star vs a tree.
Fight to the Death result: The porn star has to win this one, since she could use any number of tools to kill the tree, starting with an axe. The tree pretty much has to rely on being lucky enough to drop a branch on her.
Friendly Fight result: The two come to an amicable agreement as the Valley Oak is used as a setting or a prop in an adult film starring Keisha. Considering the specialties listed for Keisha, probably both. Everybody wins.
Round 2: Bottom Meadow a UK sports venue, vs Bradford City Police an English Police department. Pure coincidence that they're both in the same country.
Results:
Fight to the Death result: According to the article, Bottom Meadow seems like a pretty small venue, and probably tennis and soccer mostly. I'm not sure there are many tennis hooligans about, but I've heard a lot about soccer hooligans, so I think if all 2,500 of the maximum attendence swarmed the police, they'd win out.
Friendly Fight result: Hmmm.. I think I still have to go with the potential football hooligans, because even in a friendly fight, they'd probably get brutal.
Round 3: The town of Kununurra in Western Australia, vs. Innerwish, a Greek Power Metal band
Results:
Fight to the Death result: Sheer numbers have to dictate that the 5,000 inhabitants of a small Australian town would tear five greeks apart. Now if it were 10 greeks, it might be a fair fight.
Friendly Fight result: Lacking the bloodlust of an entire town, I'm sure Innerwish would annoy most of the town with its music, except perhaps the younger people who would embrace it just to annoy their parents. The young people would prevent Innerwish from being kicked out of town (unless they really suck, and I have no info on that), so annoyance would be the only point scored, and Innerwish wins.
