Selah // Something Witty

It was swift, it was just, another wave of a miracle.

Date: 12.01.18 -- Day 110 (NaNo WC Overall: 70,436)
Music: "War Anthem" / Max Richter & "The Curse" / Agnes Obel

I am a 2018 NaNoWriMo winner! 70,436 words.

Words that took so much out of me that I cannot think to write again with any coherence. I will as my mind is still whirling, but maybe not for a day or two. Regardless, it's done. A solid win. A messy, jumbled, hectic win. But a win. My first time crossing this finish line in the nine years since I've started this. Boom.

Since writing anything else on the experience will be for another day, I assembled the playlist I used to during the writing sprints. It's one of those things that just kind of came together when I started writing after that first slump. It's a bit discordant because the theme of the story is a bit of the same. Based around a protagonist who has lived thousands of years with no end in sight, the slightly jarring nature of the songs comes from what she feels when everything goes from a stagnant life to one filled with constant upheaval. A touch of melancholy and quiet, simmering anger.

NaNoWriMo 2018 Playlist

Max Richter "War Anthem" (linked above)

Ursine Vulpine ft. Annaca "Wicked Game  "
The world was on fire and no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do

Balmorhea "The Winter  "

Fallulah "Give Us A Little Love  "
It's another time, it's another day
Numbers they are new, but it's all the same
Running from yourself, it will never change

Rhian Sheehan "La Boîte à Musique  "

Masionair "Easier  "
Face up, untouched
Craving for some healing

Ólafur Arnalds "Only The Winds  "

Jarryd James "Do You Remember  "
When you love to your limit
You gave all you're given
Who you gonna pray to when you're there
Will you find out that there ain't no other love
No other love for you

Abel Korzeniowsk "A Thousand Times Good Night  "

London Grammar "Non Believer  "
Do you realize again, you chased an idea
Healed an earth behind some broken creature

Balmorhea "Remembrance  "

Florence + The Machine "Big God  "
Sometimes I think it's gettin' better
And then it gets much worse
Is it just part of the process?
Though I know I should know better
Well, I can make this work
Is it just part of the process?

Max Richer "November  "

Agnes Obel "The Curse" (linked below)
Tell me now of the very souls that look alike, look alike
Do you know the stranglehold covering their eyes?
If I call on every soul in the land, on the moon
Tell me if I'll ever know a blessing in disguise