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This is how cool I am. ;-)
I ride the bus, writing on a cheap and gigantic Dell laptop, and crankin' the tunes. I'm talking about cool tapes (but not, you know, Cool Tapes, more like Limozeen). That's right, on a bus full of iPods (seriously, if there's 30 people on the bus, 15 of them have iPods, and four others are using crappy little non-Apple flash MP3 players), I'm using my wife's vintage '80s "S-T-E-R-E-O" portable cassette player. You know, the kind that's so awesome, they didn't even NEED to add a "rewind" button?
It's part of getting into the spirit of writing the novel. Nanowrimo founder Chris Baty highly recommends writing to music, and as this month rolls along, I tend to agree.
My novel (have I mentioned this yet? I don't think so) is about a guy who plays Junior B hockey in the boondocks of rural Alberta. The book is set in around 1987, so to get me in the right frame of mind, I pulled out a box from my basement, dusted off my old junior high tapes, and pulled out some beauties to listen to this month. Def Leppard, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Kiss, Cinderella, Poison, Bon Jovi, they're all here. Another day, I'll actually list my official "(Whatever I Call My Novel) Soundtrack Mixtape/Playlist". Some of the music, to be honest, well, there's a reason why I haven't listened to it in 20 years, but some of it is absolutely perfect as the soundtrack to this novel.
Even if I get weird looks, standing at the bus stop going home, pulling out a walkman and flipping the cassette over.
BTW - my word count is just over 28,000, should be over 29,000 by the time I get home tonight and if I get a chance to do some more writing tonight, I could reach the 30,000-mark with one week to go.
