> > > There is a National Novel Writing Day, but I have never been tempted to participate in that. My poor fingers just wouldn't hold out.
> > >
> > > However, since I keep mistakenly telling people NaNoWriMo is about writing 50,000 pages in a month, I am working on writing a 50,000 page novel, just for the heck of it. I don't expect to be finished for many years. Or, well, maybe ever.
> >
> > Just use a very large font and you'll be fine.
> >
> > Stephen
>
> Another solution: have the novel consist of a single sentence in which every word is "fish" (or "buffalo"). It will be grammatically correct, uninteresting, and trivial to be made to fill 50,000 pages.


Or, assuming you've made some progress so far, you can try

[Ctrl]-[A], [Ctrl]-[C], [Ctrl]-[V]

(and then just hold down that last [Ctrl]-[V] for a very, very long time).