Do You Believe in Lief After Loev is a novel written by author Caden Lovelace, who completed it for Nanowrimo a year or so ago. And no, I did not type that wrong. Here's the cover:
Although described as fiction, the book is many things, and personally I would call it a memoir. It is a collection of personal thoughts and memories and hypotheticals and even song lyrics. So why is there two typos in the title? That's what makes it interesting: it was written without hitting backspace.
This includes every bit of keyboard smashing, copy pasting, misspelling, rephrasing, and regretable writing, Here is just a small excerpt:
As you can see the result is hilarious but powerful. I feel like we can all be inspired by this. It brings out a sincerity that most people are ashamed of. Lovelace was already a published author, but was brave enough to let the world see every bit of bad writing he could manage. Although I will say that this book is only really selling for its shock value so if you wrote your own I doubt typo novels would become the new young adult science fiction. Also apparently Lovelace starts to panic every time he gets an Amazon payment because it means someone is going to be reading his book.
This week's writing prompt is: Write a full page with pen or with no backspace, and give yourself only 20 minutes to do it.
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