Cheating "pseudo-entry" - "The Computer Crashes"

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Not sure if I was going to get time to complete this in November, so I worked on it early. This novel (or more accurately, a novella with a bunch of "junk meows" at the end to meet an arbitrary word count) is an entry along the same lines as "The Track Method", and was an attempt to find and reuse other people's works. The main difference is that the novel text doesn't solely rely on public domain works, but also works that have been licensed under CC-BY-SA (such as Wikiquotes and the StackExchange network). I also generate citations so that people know what works I used (and where I used them).

I'm torn about this novel.

• Pros: I really liked the approach of finding/reusing other people's works. No point reinventing the wheel after all, when you can just take someone else's wheel and modify it to match your own purposes.
• Cons: The process appears to take about the same amount of time as handwriting a novel...so it might not be scalable.

As for the novella's text itself - some of the scenes (not all) in the novella are really cool for me to read and write (as they deal with certain themes that I'm interested in). It's possible that "The Track Method" may be a superior novella though.

The novel consists of:

• 11,995 words (if you're counting only readable words)

• 12,382 words (if you're counting readable words and citations)

• 62,393 words (if you're counting readable words, citations, and junk meows to get me past the word count)

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