NaNoWriMo Goals + Two New Playlists

October 28, 2015 Posted by Alyssa Fiction & I

NaNoWriMo is around the corner! I’ve participated for the last several years, and I’m planning to have a go again.

Over the summer, I pounded out a (very) rough draft of Popinjay, reboot edition. My plan for NaNoWriMo this year is to retype the whole thing, fixing the biggest problems as I go. I’m looking forward to exploring Talvas’s dialect more, and emphasizing the Mongolian influences in his culture. But mostly, I’m just anticipating writing a character voice that is so jaded and dry and basically the opposite of most of my other guys. It’s fun to dabble in something unusual!

To commemorate the event, I’ve made a new playlist for this WIP. Archery songs! Adventure songs! Etc.

Archers Never Make Good Kings from midenianscholar on 8tracks Radio.

Archers (The Ballroom Thieves) // Longshot (Nevertheless) // Secrets (OneRepublic) // Run (Snow Patrol) // Blow Away (A Fine Frenzy) // Follow the Arrow (Rosie Golan & Human) // Step Out (José González) // I Lived (OneRepublic) // I Bet My Life (Imagine Dragons) // Wrecking Ball (Jared & The Mill) // War in My Blood (Fiction Family) // The Woods (Hollow Coves) // The Longer I Run (Peter Bradley Adams) // Empty (Ray Lamontagne) // Dream (Priscilla Ahn) // The Violet Hour (The Civil Wars) // Cripple Me (Elenowen) // First and Last Waltz (Nickel Creek)

I talked previously about finishing a first draft of my joint project (tentatively called Letters) via Google Docs. I’ve finally put together my miscellaneous instrumental tracks to create a faux soundtrack–which means you get not one, but two new playlists! This one even has story quotes in the annotations. If you’re into pianos and cellos and violins, you might enjoy it:

Letters & Spells from midenianscholar on 8tracks Radio.

Interstellar Theme – Cello Cover (Nicholas Yee) // Prelude (Joel Grainger) // Childhood (Ilan Esherki) // Pilgrims On a Long Journey (Coeur De Pirate) // Arrival of the Birds – Violin cover (Amy Lee) // Locke’ing Horns (Michael Giacchino) // Strange Waltz (Benoit Groulx) // The King’s Speech (Alexandre Desplat) // Nightbook (Ludovico Einaudi) // The Cascades (Fleet Foxes) // No Reservations (Philip Glass) // Rondo – Allegro (Richard Tognetti) // Father (David Mahler) // A Game of Cricket (Adrian Johnston) // Damaged (John Lunn) // The Gammy Bird (Christopher Young) // Giving the Kii (James Newton Howard) // London Calling (Michael Giacchino) // Copper and Tin (Anne Dudley) // Daydream (Grégoire Hetzel) // Don’t Let It Get You Down (Johnnyswim)