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[music playing] Hello! Today's headline: "I can't dance!"
Not really breaking news. Playing the music though because I've been
trying to find the right soundtrack for my novel, so I can listen to it while writing,
and hopefully it'll inspire me and set the mood for my scenes. It turns out that dubstep
is a pretty accurate musical representation of what's going on in the outside word, which
is a sort of sci-fi dystopia wherein there is no longer a such thing as writing or reading
whatsoever because aliens came and a bunch of kids decided writing sucked, and that whole
generation pretty much just killed everybody. Of course, my narrator has had very little
contact with the outside world recently and is currently stuck in an underground cell
and being invited to dinner with the leader the leader of a resistance movement that's
trying to bring an end to the on-going intergalactic civil wars. You might be surprised to learn
that that means they agree on basically nothing because my narrator really just wants to be
alive. She is not interested in saving the world at all. President Pan, however, pretty
much just wants so save the world. Also, President Pan is neither a president nor named Pan—
I was in a word war and literally President Pan was the only thing I could think of. I'll
probably change her name later. Another gem from a word war: apparently my narrator's
guards are supposed to give her a, and I quote, "guidance/watch thing." What I meant, of course,
is that they need to escort her, but that word was not coming to my brain in the middle
of a word war. Word wars, by the way, are when you set a specific amount of time in
which to compete against others for word count. Typically, they're ten or fifteen minute sprints,
and the winner is whoever writes the most words in the the time frame. Really simple.
Anyway, I can't figure out what kind of music to listen to for writing these somewhat calm
prison scenes, with President Snow and Analaka sort of struggling for power. President Snow
wants to use Analaka, who is the Last Writer, as pretty much a puppet for her own anti-war
movement, bringing peace through writing. Analaka has no interest in being anyone's
puppet, isn't stupid, and is basically threatening to let writing officially die with her. I
don't know how you express that in music. They're verbally sparring but in a non-aggressive, somewhat respectful
way, so I need something calm but tense, like fencing practice. Any suggestions? Let me
know in the comments, and I will see you tomorrow, which is technically today. Bye!