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You Can Do It! A Mix To Up Your Word Count

So at 10:30pm on November 1 I decided I was going to try to do NaNoWriMo this year. Because I make all my important decisions at the LAST FUCKING MINUTE. I am completely unprepared (character outlines? plot points? WHAT?) and I am writing a story based around a musical playlist (not this one. Ha.)

Obviously when one is scrambling to get one's word-count up, one needs a mix, full of motivational "I am a literary WARRIOR" type of music. And also some power ballads so you can pretend you are in an 80's movie montage WRITING YOUR HEART OUT. Possibly in SLOW MOTION. Or no, rather, FAST MOTION. Yes, that would be better.

To all my fellow NaNo-ers, and in fact, ANYONE writing a story for a challenge, or anyone who just finds that writing a story IS a challenge, I give you this mix:

You Can Do It! A Mix For The Literary Warrior
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01. Come On - The Headstones
02. Lose Yourself - Eminem
03. I Find The Words - Peabody
04. Work Hard - Depeche Mode
05. Rise Up - Green River Ordinance
06. Words - Kate Miller-Heidke
07. Explode - Patrick Stump
08. Don't Give Up - Noisettes
09. A Thousand Words - Savage Garden
10. Crush The Losers - Regurgitator
11. Starting All Over Again - Bon Jovi
12. Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
13. You're The Best - Joe Esposito
14. Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
15. Maniac - Michael Sembello
16. Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
17. Speed - Billy Idol
18. Sure Fire Winners - Adam Lambert
19. The Final Countdown - Europe
20. What A Feeling - Irene Cara
21. Bye Bye Bye - NSYNC

P.S. Who out there IS nano-ing? How's it going?
P.P.S. DON'T LOOK AT THIS PAGE

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this mix looks super shiny. If I could write to something like this I prolly would, but I have this issue where I have to find music that imitates the themes/atmosphere of what I'm involved in at that moment.

I'm doing an unofficial Nano thing because this time of year means work is a giant ball of stress and so far I've maybe mangaged 2.5k? since the first.

*CHEERS YOU ON*

Oh I can't write to music at ALL. Not even background music. I get really distracted and I end up turning it down and down until I've turned it off. But I like to listen to music to psyche me up!

Yay unofficial nano!

*CHEERS YOU ON TOO*

I can't write to silence because of the ambient sounds and white noise distract me from the words.

back in august-september Pika had an unofficial one and I got ummm 68k? So we'll see how it goes this time around.

*hugs*

Wow 68k in a month is AWESOME.

I am in AWE.

*hugs*

\o/ DUDE that mix is awesome. I will totally DL it once I'm home. I have a writing mix of music that I use that's full of songs I know so well they sort of turn into white noise which somehow magically quiets my brain enough so that I can write, but this is like a psych up mix for WRITING. Awesome.

My nano is trucking along! I wrote out my scene-by-scene outline yesterday which has already helped a TON, because it's way easier for me to focus on just writing a SCENE than it is to look at word count and how many more I need to write today to be on target. YAY FOR MANIPULATING OUR BRAINS.

You SHOULD! I like to listen to it while I'm walking to the tube to PSYCHE MYSELF UP so I can pull out my laptop and write REGARDLESS OF ANYONE SITTING WITHIN EYELINE OF MY SCREEN. Because if I don't write on public transport there is no way this baby is getting done.

Whichever baby I end up writing (thank you so much for your twitter advice btw)

YAY FOR MOTIVATIONAL 80's MUSIC.

1. This is a completely badass mix.
2. OMG HEADSTONES!!!!1!!!

1. YAY!!!
2. DOUBLE YAY!!!

Enjoy bb!

2. OMG HEADSTONES!!!!1!!!

That's exactly what I thought, too, Brynn. Except with more exclamation points.

Hee, this should be fun! I love that you have Words in there, A++ choice even though I never thought about it like that.

Nano is going well wordcount wise, but I've already hit the week 2 stage where I hate my novel and want to forget about it. As far as quality goes I think it's one of my worst efforts ever. I did short stories last year and that was way easier and now everything is HARD. Like I had a great concept but I feel like I'm ruining my own brilliant idea by writing it so badly.

And I keep accidentally switching between first person and third person, but at least that's *reasonably* easy to fix in the edits.

Ahahahaa I think I got that from one of your mixes in the first place. I wanted to use ALL the songs about WORDS, you know?

I'm glad you're doing well on wordcount. I'm already completely over my fic and think it's the most boring thing to ever bore, but I REFUSE to give up. First drafts are ALWAYS shitty! Just keep writing! I like my concept too, but OMG BORING FIC IS BORING. Lalalalaa.

Oh you can fix POV issues, no worries. That's what December is for!

<3

It's been a weird writing experience for me so far. For Nano I usually start at the beginning of the story and just power ahead writing the story chronologically, but this year I'm jumping around all over the place, just writing anything I can think of from anywhere in the plotline so I don't feel stuck on one scene. Hopefully if I just keep churning it out then EVENTUALLY I'll be able to find some way to make it all work. Or maybe not. Maybe the whole idea was flawed and wrong to begin with and there's no way to save it.

But then I think, Meg, your main characters are a lesbian couple who get paid by the government to kill unicorns. There is no way this could possibly be a bad idea.

I feel like a retard but when I try to download the mix it takes me to Megaupload in Japanese? (It's set up completely different than how I'm used to it being set up too...) Where do I click for the muuuusic. :(

OMG that's weird. I didn't realise until after I'd waited out the upload that I wasn't logged into Megaupload so I have no idea how to fix it. I'll try a reupload when I'm on a better connection, currently it's just dropping out.

:(

Adam! Savage Garden! N Sync! This is for me!

Yay! It's a mix for ANYONE trying to get their words out. :D Glad you like it BB.

That is awesome and I'm totally going to DL it. :D

That timer, however, is terrifying. D:

The timer is SUPREMELY terrifying - but racing to beat it is proving to be somewhat useful for me.

Glad you like the mix! Hope it helps you psyche up for some great writing sessions. :D

That mix is amazing. Nsync, Savage Garden, Patrick, Eminem!

I must download.

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