I spent tonight choosing a soundtrack for the story I’m hoping to rewrite. I’d been listening to the radio on the way home from work some months back, I think last winter, and the songs on the 80s New Wave station started to conjure images of the story I’d written probably a year before. It’s not the last thing I’ve written, but it’s close. And it was always ever a draft at best. Freewritten to get an idea out that wouldn’t have happened if I’d stopped to plan it out.
I still don’t know what the story quite is or what I want it to be. But it has music now. Sometimes I associate a song with something I’ve written or plan to write and it solidifies things for me. That seems to be happening here, and I need every trick I can muster to get me into the next phase of this, so I’ll put this into my Scrivener file tonight and then maybe put the playlist together tomorrow. So I’ll have it to listen to as I try to do the rewrites and edits.
Not sure if this is me pulling back from NaNo (chickening out) or leaning harder into it. Since this is more story planning than it is actually writing, it’s technically what I should be doing. Maybe I’ll be a NaNo “rebel” this year. I’m as much of one as PeeWee Herman is most of the time. Erin would make a ridiculously cute Dottie though.
