Good day! This is still technically Day One of NaNoWriMo and I’m wrapping up my story at approximately 2,016 words. Not bad, but it could be better. I’m trying to churn out as much words as I can before reality (and schoolwork) hit me in the face. Unfortunately, I’ve discovered a few road blocks that have been hindering me from typing up a thousand words an hour.

1. The frakking Internet is a really distracting place. I’ve remedied this by utilizing the Mac OS’s feature called “Spaces”. It’s helped a bit.
2. I can’t write dialogue for shiitake. I feel a wave of secondhand embarrassment whenever I re-read something my character is saying, because it feels ridiculous. But I obviously can’t write a young adult novel without dialogue. Just imagine how awful that would be!
3. I am hungry all the time.
4. All the frakking time.
5. Sometimes, the desire to take a nap instead is so overwhelming, I end up just lying down and staring into space, because my brain is on Nap Mode, but I can’t exactly close my eyes, on account of having too much caffeine in my system.

Insanityyy. But I refuse to give up! I just need some actual plot. I’m thinking if I should add an element of fantasy or something because 50,000 words of a fourteen-year-old, with no actual plot just might drive me over the edge. I have added some footnotes to increase my word count. This doesn’t sound like a good plan.

For motivation, these are up on the wall directly in front of my desk.

Too bad I actually work away from the desk. Oh well. Tomorrow, my plan is to make a playlist. It’s a little distracting for me to actually write stuff while something is playing in the background, but I like making mixes for things like this because it helps with setting the mood. Lately, I’ve been listening to The National. This song, in particular, I particularly want to shine through. It’s called “Slow Show” and it is from their album, Boxer.

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The National — “Slow Show”