they'll build statues in our likeness.

Holy fucking hell.  Playing let's write far enough ahead that we can take a weekend off is a DANGEROUS GAME.  Like, my back hurts pretty wicked now, but my plot's got enough fuel to pull me through another 2k+ day tomorrow, which I needdd.

Anyway, my new amazing word count total is 36,005 words, which puts me ahead of the general NaNo curve by like, 3k or something?  Almost enough for my lovely weekend of concerts and memories and rest.

I'm pretty fucking happy with myself, my plot, and my characters right now.  I had totally forgotten how amazing week three and beyond feels, but I remember now and I love it.  I think forgetting what it's like to feel this way is part of the magic of NaNoWriMo.

Music today was Cobra Starship, Hit the Lights, and a little Hey Monday, who may not be that bad afterall.  Noveling is great for keeping your mind and all your options wide open.

Happy week three!

you're gonna need a bodybag.

No update for yesterday, very lame day, but I finished off yesterday with 32k on the dot.

Today I finished with 33,767 which I believe shows that I have my groove back, and I want to write at least 2k on Friday and make my goal tomorrow so that I'll be totally covered for not being able to write at all on Saturday.  Yay concert!

Anyway, I split the novel into two "books" today because I started writing in H. Chiller's p.o.v. which is odd and very, very odd.

Fun day though, time traveling scene ftw.

Music was Cobra Starship, Hit the Lights, Forever the Sickest Kids, and Sing It Loud.

a.k.a., all the bands I get to see live on Saturday!

hold on tight.

So, I almost forgot to update here today because like, I gave like, so little of a shit about anything today.  I gave up today after about 3pm when I hit like, just my bare minimum requirement of like 1300 words and some.

I don't carreeeeee.

Word count total now is 30,595 words, so hey, at least I hit that milestone a little bit ahead of the curve.

Anyway, I ran on only one cup of coffee and Tokio Hotel today.

Tomorrow is for Diet Coke with Hey Monday and nevershoutnever! for music.

If you've never heard of nsn!, please check him out, he's amazing.  Don't check out HM, please, they're terrible, I just sometimes listen to bad music to inspire good novel.

and you walked for miles down the shores of california to the coast of mexico, where we could hide and no one had to know.

New word count total is 29,016, and my plot has constant vigor to just keep going.

Thank god that week two is washed away from all of us.

Today was mango-Rockstar energy drink + over 3k word day.  My favorite.

This may totally be a 6k weekend, that would be amazing.  Being very ahead all week would be amazing, since next Saturday I won't be writing at all because I'll be at a concert!

Anyway, music today was Forever the Sickest Kids, Paramore, The Matches, and Bright Eyes.

I'd recommend them all to anyone, as they're all in my all-time-top-20 favorite bands list.

like the cat that caught the cream.

Okay, so today's noveling efforts started off rockin', because I blew eight dollars on two Rockstar energy drinks, a Coke Zero, and four bags of candy.  Yay, this is how we do.

I've been getting worse and worse about remembering my totems, which were more attached to me last year for NaNo.

Anyway, it's still awesome that I'm already halfway through.  It just kept getting easier to write when I you know, found something to write.

So my new word count total is 25,600 words.  Fucking awesome.

Started a new chapter, ten I think, today.

Music was old, rare Panic! at the Disco demos that I've had for years but rarely listen to anymore.  Memories are conducive to noveling.

i'm free, free falling.

Well, I ended off today on a fucking roll!  But I had to stop, so I'll just continue the wild crazy, semi-depository of all this information from H. onto Chris tomorrow, and that'll propel me hopefully to 27k, because I need to start getting a super solid lead, since I won't be able to write on the 22nd at all, and I have no idea what's going on for the next eight days or randomly after that.  So it's best to be prepared.

New word count total is 24k on the dot.   Like, exactly.

So I wrote at least more than 100 words over what my spreadsheet told me that my goal for today was.  Thank you little spreadsheet.  I'll start copying things into the booklet too, and add my new characters and stuff into there.

Who knows what's going to happen next?  Or even where will my next source of caffeine come from?

No music today, oddly enough, apparently I write just as well set to Fight Club, the movie.

i bet it burns; it's numb in my head.

Today sucked. God, week two is like, longgg.  Because it's only Wednesday but I need it to be over now.

I also need: to stop biting my fingers, to buy ten dollars worth of energy drinks tomorrow, to live in a warmer climate.  That's ALL.  It doesn't really seem like a lot to ask for to not have anxiety issues, not have a brother who steals my pop, and for Ohio to stop being colddd.  Really, not a lot to ask for.

Anyway, new word count is 22,367 which I hate, because it's misleading.  I watch my word count when I type and I thought, yes, I have typed like, 2k words today, but no, it's actually only like 1.5k something, how fucking lameee.

I just continued whatever chapter I was last working on.

Somehow, his boss is finally an evil brainwasher and now he's being followed and leaving secret messages with a Starbucks barista.

Now, THIS is more like a NaNovel.

Seat of the pants is fun!

Music today was Tokio Hotel, EMPIRES, and well, that's it.

I need to up my variety, but I have no clue where to start.  Probably with Modest Mouse.

don't you want to believe?

New word total a pretty fucking awesome 20,774.

It feels great to be over that second 10k milestone.

Astounding to think that I'm almost half through already.

Really odd to think that there's only three more 10k goals to hit, though I hoped to go over.

Either way, I'm going to need to throw in another little twist tomorrow, possible evil boss action, because I don't want Chris to admit that he needs H. just yet.

Anyway, pretty lame writing session today, week two fatigue is so much set it.

Music today was Conor Oberst and EMPIRES.

Check out EMPIRES, please, they'll even let you download their album free.

<3

my blue heaven.

Holy hell!  Sophomore Slump week two is apparently not affecting me quite as bad as I had thought it would yesterday.  I pretty much made up for the epic fail of yesterday.

New word count is a quite epic total of 19,173 words!

Which is astounding.  One of only three days so far that I've written more than 2k words for the day.

Anyway, I finished chapter eight which ended up at 2,547 words, which is okayyy, I guess.

I switched up my music today by going with Taking Back Sunday, and then spent a little time with no music at all.

I'm just glad I found a little bit of odd plot to throw in, and something totally random will definitely happen tomorrow.  Yay for evil bosses!

live every second.

Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck.  Umm, did I mention fuck?

New word count total for the day is a fucking pathetic 17,008 words.

Yes, I only wrote a little over 300 words today, but I just got home, and I'm officially out of fucking plot.

I need to find a way for the boss to be fucking evil, I just can't think of anything.

Note to self: not a good idea at all to run out of plot in Sophomore Slump week #2.  Fuck.

Music, just like, one song of Tokio Hotel, because I only wrote for 6 minutes before I deadlocked myself in.

But at least I wrote something, right?  It's still progress, at least.  However minor.

FUCK.

hate feeling cheap, but love being used.

Eh, today was not my best.

But I did get to check off the little Ninja Focus! milestone in my NaNo booklet thing, because I wrote over 1667 words without getting up for the first time.

My new word count total is 16,706.

I finished chapter seven, which is officially 1,554 words, which is okay.

Also, I'm now completely done with the first third of my second novel!  This feels pretty great.

I am determined not to let Sophomore Slump week affect me as bad as I think it did last year, but I need plot, for I am allll out for now.  I don't want to start the conclusion anywhere near now, and save for the vague idea of an evil Mr. O'Callaghan, I really hadn't thought of much for middle.

Today's music for noveling: Tokio Hotel's "Schrei" album; Paramore's song "Decode".

it's just a lyrical lie.

New word count = 15,015 words!

Still two days ahead of schedule, even if today was a generally hard, dull, and uninspiring day.

But, I did draw to a close the insanely massive chapter six, at a finish of 4,497 words, which is awesome.  But I finally broke it up so that I've got a chapter seven and a progression in the plot.

My spreadsheet is officially my newbestfriend, because it tells me everything.  How much I write, wordsperminute, wordsperhour, and it's telling me that I'm officially 30% complete with my novel.

This year is being a lot more fun and less stressful than last year, but it's only week one, so I still have time to bite my tongue on that one.

Music today only Cute Is What We Aim For's album "The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch", and that's it, wow.

Anyway, now I desperately need ice cream to heal the traumatization that this month is giving me alreadyyy.

it's wrong to keep them waiting.

Today was amazing.  Making things up off of the type of my head does work for me, and now I know what H.'s big secret, time travel mission has been this whole time.

New word count total: 13,452

All still a part of the still growing, sure to be massive chapter six.

My Word document is already over 22 pages, which is astounding, because my whole novel last year was only 89 pages in total.  Also good, since I would love a 70k novel this year.

Music today was Conor Oberst's self-titled solo album.

Not much else to report, other than that I love Splenda's coffee flavoring packets.

Also, my WPM today was up to 45, which was the best I've done since day three.

Note: Next year's novel, a choose your own adventure book of sorts?

ready, set, go, it's time to run!

Good day.  Could've been better.  I desperately need plot.

Total word count: 11,641 words, still pretty awesome, I just need to start pounding it out again.

Total words for chapter five is 1,786 words.

An intermission that has 227 words.

And I'm still working on chapter six.

Tomorrow I need to, I don't know, but I have to do it, haha.

Music today of Tokio Hotel, My Chemical Romance, Automatic Loveletter, odd random songs.

Need to focus more and I don't know, but I need to do it.

i carried your heart, and i carried it far.

Okay, back to feeling kind of confident.
I scared myself by not starting any kind of writing until after six p.m. No more of that!
And I do really have to plot out at least two chapters in advance from now on, because honestly, I have no clue where my plot is or where it's going. Most of what I did today was filler, which I accept is necessary, but it sucks to write.
BUT, MY NEW WORD TOTAL IS 10,002 WORDS! ON DAY FOUR! I'M SO EXCITED!
I may actually hit my 70k pipedream wordcount. But I don't know. The winds they are a'blowin.
All I worked on today was the still unfinished and purposeless chapter five.

Music today, almost exclusively Tokio Hotel, German versions only, and a little Automatic Loveletter.
I need to hash out my musical range already and get in some variety, try new things that don't make me singalong.
And I just decided to occasionally glance at Stephen King's "On Writing" when I'm terribly uninspired, because I just found an online copy to read.
Otherwise, I don't know. I actually forgot to use a totem-bracelet today, or anything really, so I'll blame the bad writing on that. Though I am wearing new, lucky underwear.

Anyway, I'm pretty far ahead, but tomorrow I am so focusing on plot and if I only write a few hundred words, I may be okay.
Week one = awesome.

it's the same old song, the same old song.

So, I'm definitely going to have to fix myself so that I don't make days like today part of my routine.

End of day three total: 8,306 words.

Which means that today I only wrote 716 words today, but I'm trying not to let it bother me, it was still okay for a day, and I needed a little rest.  I'll get better, once I get plot.

Haha, mysterious package ended chapter four, now I have to know what's in it.

Today I only wrote chapter 4, which gives it a total of 717 words.

Small in comparison to the first three, but it has a purpose, it's small for emphasis, or something.

Tomorrow will get better.

70k may still be a pipedream of ridiculosity.

Music of only German Tokio Hotel songs.

you take what's yours, and i'll take mine.

Total as of now, which is it for the day.  7,582 words.

It's odd to be done at 4:46 p.m., but I'm just so tired and I've been trying to ward off a headache since noon.

The little organization flip book I printed out weeks ago has shown to be a guiding light of amazing, especially for keeping track of characters.

I've also finally caught myself up by not plotting ahead enough, so if I do anything else today, it'll be that, or else I'll get very behind having to come up with something out of my ass to write tomorrow.

Anyway, today was the alpha and the omega of chapter three which comes to a healthy total of 2,574 words, which wasn't all I could milk it for, but it worked out fine.

Next chapter is four, and I want it to be action-y and confrontational, but maybe it's too early?  I don't know.

I also like that so far, my whole novel is already 13 pages in MSWord, which I believe that last year's novel only came to around 89 pages or something.  Maybe that's a difference between the o5 and 07 versions of the software, but I'm pretending there's no way it is.

Music today: Paramore, The Maine, 2*Sweet, and Automatic Loveletter.

Still desperately searching for some JamisonParker.

leb die sekunde!

Today has been pretty freaking fantastic.

Probably my best day so far in NaNoWriMo, this year or last.  Actually, it most definitely was my best.  I will sleep incredibly well tonight and spend almost all of tomorrow plotting, since only a little bit of writing's needed.  Actually, none would be needed for 2 days if I was sticking to the 50k goal, but from almost day one, this story has been yelling at me that it wants to be 70k words, so I guess it's my job to give it what it wants.

So, besides finishing the 2,090 word chapter one today, I also finished the 2,919 word chapter two today.  I sense a pattern in my word counts.  Anyway, that leaves 8 words that are the title to chapter three.

Which gives me a final day one word count of.... drumroll... 5,017 words.  Which is just so incredible, I can't comprehend it.

The spreadsheet that I'm using to keep track tells me that I'm 10% complete with a 50k word novel, because I haven't adjusted it to 70k yet, and I may never.  Or at least not even think about it until I can plot further than the chapter I'm going to be writing tomorrow.

Anyway, with Tokio Hotel and The Hush Sound, along with Sing It Loud and 30 Seconds To Mars for the final portion of my writing today, it's been a great day in all aspects of NaNo, especially candy, but not particularly in the respects of the NaNo site loading.

I can't recall what part of November it was before they started slowing to manageable last year either, eh.

I got my first Chris Baty, encouraging email today.

And I have submitted a voice clip to WriMoRadio, which I'll probably do every week this year.

we're going to runrunrun all ten blocks!

So, I've now finished chapter one with a total of 2,090 words, and I'm actually pretty impressed that it's generally good writing.

For the next while, I'm just going to keep plotting ahead, and then later I'll think about adding to my current word count of 2,567 words.  Of course, 477 of those words being the beginning of chapter 2.

Music so far today: two albums by The Matches, and "Schrei" album by Tokio Hotel.

Nursing the last few sips of the Monster drink I started with.

Breaks are good.

Being ahead is amazing.

Already 900 ahead of 1667-ers.

we'll live forever and they will write a novel about our love.

Despite how "ohmygodreally, I'm sotired, I justwannapassouttt" tired I was last night, I managed to stick it out until midnight, and then fourty-three more minutes past.

In that 43 minutes, I wrote my first 1,003 words of the still incomplete chapter one.

I did the whole thing while listening to Tokio Hotel's "Schrei" album all the way through.

Starting to establish my background music for this year.

I'm going to write more a little later on, when I can bring myself to.

Today's goal is going to be around 2k.

I'm working with everything from a spreadsheet to paper records, and all.  It's overwhelming, but it's more to ensconce myself in to keep focused.

Last night I opened the ceremonial NaNoWriMo air freshener, and exercised the first of my writing totems, the music-player armband.  Because HeyChris always listens to his iPod when he runs, and you know that motherfucker has to have used an armband.  For real.

Anyway, if I remember right, I also have a hoodie for cold days, a stuffed dog named Gut-Z after Chris, my Chadam paperweight, a white Fender pick, and my pageboy hat.

It's going to be one hell of a messy month.

Will update later today with final daily totals.

creative writing prompt #37.

From: http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/

hypocrite, cookie, city, telephone.

Sally kept pacing back and forth across the vintage, black and white, diner-style linoleum tiling that she was pretty sure had to have been installed as only a joke.  Every other word racing through her head was "hypocrite", and the other was, well, too vulgar for her to say out loud without blushing.

Sally ran a bakery in the city, modestly titled Sally's Best Efforts, and right about now, she had it up to here waiting for the third time this week on the same late employee.  The employee was nowhere near a new one, but this one particularly was annoying.  Every other week, she would arrive an hour before the shop was to open, right on time for work, and then everyone who also came in on time, but was a minute behind her, got berated up and down the street.

Then the next week after that, she would show up to work an hour behind everyone else, branding her the grand title of "hypocrite".  This week though was just a little bit different.

This week, Sally and the other employees decided that they were done with Veronica's hypocrisy.  All she did was needlessly stress the other bakers out, and Veronica did very mediocre work both baking, and interacting with customers compared to the performance of the other hireds.

Before she could pull herself up and out of her thoughts, Sally inhaled sharply as the sound of the bell above the door going off and alerting them of someone's entrance snapped her out of her trance.  There was still another thirty minutes to go until opening time for the shop, so she knew that the door had to have been opened by the key of an employee, and only one employee was left to arrive that was working today.  Veronica had to have arrived.

By the time that Sally had that figured out, Veronica was stolling right in to the employee lounge in front of her eyes.  Veronica had the hypocritic audacity to have stolled in, and was smiling and knawing on a cookie that had to have been a product of that day's very first batch.  It was an unspoken tradition that Chad, Sally's oldest son who worked at the shop, always got the first cookie set aside for him under the glass on the front counter.  Veronica hadn't been to the back of the shop yet, so Sally knew that she had to have taken Chad's first cookie from under the glass.

Sally couldn't hold it in anymore, and she knew she'd have to get to it anyway, so why beat around the bush?  "You're fired, Veronica."

Veronica laughed, obviously being too self-superior to believe the sentence had been anything other than a joke.  "Good one, Sally."

"I'm serious.  Myself and every other employee here believe that it's about time we made this decision.  I'm sorry, but you're fired.  I'll give you a few minutes to get anything you may have in the back, but that's it."

Veronica's face was painted in disbelief, and she let out an ungodly snort.  "You can't be serious, I'm the best employee you've got!"

"Veronica, you heard me, now pack your things and leave.  Don't dare think about taking anything on your way out either, because there's a telephone right behind me and I will call the police."

Note:  Between this and a random fanfiction story I wrote, I banged out 1226 words today, so I'm getting more comfortable writing in prep for NaNo.

bouncebounce baby.

Starting music to download for week one:

Tyga "No Introduction" [album]

A Rocket To The Moon.

Cartel [first two albums]

Sunny Day Real Estate.

Texas Is the Reason.

Yellowcard.

[to be added to when my memory unfuzzes]

This year's writing totems:

My Chadam-head self-made paperweight.

White guitar pick.

Mp3 player's armband, for a reason that relates to my character.

A guy's hooded sweatshirt that he gave me.

That's enough, right, haha.  May add more, who knows?

eta: Now I'm using googledocs for some character planning.

With google.docs and LiveJournal voiceposts, I'm determined to use innovation to help make this year's NaNo much more fun, because not having enough fun was my main flaw last year.

Also, posting it here will keep me to it, but I'm taking a month long absence from myspace, entirely for the month of November, because I think it's not a only a distraction, but a uniform creativity killer.

eta 2: In addition to using google.docs and LJ voiceposts, I've discovered that I very much like to type on Q10 software.  The typing sounds are very unobnoxious, and it's very easy to use.

she could be money, cars, fear of the dark.

So, I found this amazing little booklet from someone on the NaNo forums, and decided to print it out.  I'm already so glad I did.

It's lying on my desk shelf along with the notebook I've been plotting in, Chadam [one of my writing totems this year, also a very pretty self-made paperweight], and some ink pens.  It's got progress charts for November, a map, a timeline, character planning sheets, and chapter planning sheets, plus little reminders.  It's so amazing.  I love it.

I'm getting so incredibly stoked.

I've decided to have a lot more fun with NaNo this year than I did last.

It's getting cold in the house a lot more.  Reminds me of last November and how my hands were almost too frozen to type.

Picking out my music already, and the part for my laptop's getting ordered no later than this weekend.

no one is telling me the speed i should be traveling.

Getting ready for November.

My second year doing NaNoWriMo, and last year I won with over 50k words written on my first novel "The City By The Sea".  Keeping a blog through the whole thing was really key at keeping my stress under control and keeping me on track.  Looking back and reading it is an amazing feeling, too.

I had a hugely plotted out basis for my novel all set to go, just needed to run through some outlines.  But then I saw my new title on my favorite author's blog ("The Life and Times of H. Chiller") and knew I had to change focus completely.

Now I'm writing a superhero-style alter-ego adventure novel based around my main character Chris Heyson a.k.a H. Chiller.

So I'm armed with virtually nothing.  At this point, not even my trusty laptop, Travis.

Hopefully, he can be working for it, otherwise, I'm going to really have to tough it out, and I wouldn't blame myself then if I didn't win.  Fingers crossed for Travis.

Until November, I'm going to try and pull together a very rough outline, because I kind of want to see if I can get into the true NaNoWriMo spirit of winging it.  Also, I'm totally going to start hoarding my supplies together.

That means I need to stock up on: SNACKS, this year the focus is on candy; drinks, I'm getting everyone to get me Coke Zero for my birthday; gum; blankets; MUSIC!; and, my inspiration item this year is going to be: A BLACK CAPE.  Hopefully, I just need to find one, or find something else like a glove, hat, etc. to fit in with my novel this year.

Wow, hard to believe it's been a year since I did this, seems like a dream.

Seventeen days until NaNoWriMo.