Onerosity coupons.

[serene]

Turns out I was done for the day after all. 2,104 for Day One. Not half bad.

The NaNo kit I bought a few months back has a fun motivational tool in it. It's called the Onerosity Coupon. How it works is this: I agree to do some onerous task someone chooses for me (or something they know I don't want to do) if I haven't met my word goal by a certain date. (My goal is 2,000 words per day, finishing on the 25th of November.)

Wanna play? The following dates are taken already. Check out what I have to do if I don't crack the whip on myself:

4th, maestrodog: I'll have to schedule a private session with a fundamental Christian minister and tell him all about my lifestyle, then listen to his responses without saying a word if I haven't hit 8,000 words by the 4th.

5th: (someotherguy and sogwife are sharing this day) I have to watch *and synopsize* a Mr. Hanky episode of South Park (ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!) and iron a metric buttload of muslin if I haven't hit 10,000 words by the 5th.

6th, hitchhiker: If I don't have 12,000 words by the 6th, I have to go through what I *did* write and add apostrophes to all the plurals. I don't get to change them back until NaNo is done

7th (the day before my surgery), stonebender: we get to go to an improv comedy show together if I don't have 14,000 words by the 7th. (Improv makes me squirm, and not in that nice way that we like.)

18th, golden_c_turtle: I'll have to endure Restaurant Hell with her (we'll go to a restaurant and she'll be rude to the waiters) if I don't have 36,000 words by the 18th.

Who else wants an onerosity coupon? If you comment here, either pick a date or tell me to pick, and if you want your coupon, send me your snailmail address: serene@serenepages.org

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That. Could. Explain. So. Much. ;-)