Word Count: 3,085
National Novel Writing Month is just over sixteen hours old now and considering the amount of typing I’ve done, writing this blog post is a tad cathartic. One I changed font and it serves as a refreshing break. Weird, I know.
So I was basically listing scenes right up until the start and my plan isn’t quite done yet. I have 48 scenes. It looked like it was close the final climax and being wrapped up by scene 50 but I added a twist and it’s able to go on a bit longer. That’s not just filler, I swear. It would’ve disappointed people to end at that point.
I started right on midnight dosed up with too much caffeine. I started blaring Drowning Pool and Carpathian through my massive Sony Headphones and had like 1800 words by 1am. I woke at like 12 this morning to continue work and after two bursts of 15 and 20 minutes, I’m up to 3085 words and still working on this first scene.
It’s good, I like it a lot. It’s full of anger and aggression and really shows one of my characters really well. The heavy angry metal music has been working well to get this out of me.
I plan to keep writing to 4,000 words today as I’m using the rush and momentum of everyone starting to get ahead and make me feel confident. So far, it’s working.
writing, NaNoWriMo, Hadeon
Lots of heavy metal is a good way to keep yourself pumped. I prefer heavy does of Napalm Death, Brutal Truth and Slayer to keep me going during a writing project.
As a fellow NaNo writer I would like to congratulate you on getting 3000 words out on your first day. Here it is a week later and I’m only at 1200. I really need to get cracking if I want to get anywhere near 50k in the next three weeks.