Origins

I give to you the origin of Eleventy 1 in eleventy-one words...

It started with the blog Three Word Wednesday. The owner of said blog posted ‘Fiction in 58,’ stories written in fifty-eight words. The number had no draw for me. But the concept did, especially since I often found it difficult – given my propensity for verbosity – to slash unnecessary words. I therefore decided to transfigure the bloody carcass of Random Rejoinders – the name by which this blog was formerly known – into bite-size story morsels. But my number wasn’t immediately apparent. Until I remembered ‘The Fellowship of the Ring.’ The story begins with Bilbo’s one hundred and eleventh birthday. Except Tolkien uses the word, eleventy-one. My inner geek blossomed; I found my number.