Lots of wonderful books were abysmal first drafts! "Shitty first drafts", says Anne Lamott.
The first week of NaNo is always the hardest--it's so much easier when I'm cheating and working on something I've already started XD My reaction to tough sections always seems to be making something happen (pushing the main character's grandmother down the stairs, for instance) or throwing in new characters (why is there a random new character? eeeeer....)
And I have been skimming your NaNo posts, and I had started a playlist of things that I thought might suit your purposes--not a long list, because so much of the folk music I happen to have is too American, and the instrumentals the wrong period, but we do have a bunch of George Winston if you're interested?--and there was one song, a sea shanty in French that mentions three sisters and is an old recording sung by two women or girls with rather unnervingly high and small voices, the kind of thing that would be easy to warp into something really creepy....and now, of course the computer crash has caused me to lose all of my iTunes playlists. So I have to find it again! But when I do I'll post a link.
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The first week of NaNo is always the hardest--it's so much easier when I'm cheating and working on something I've already started XD My reaction to tough sections always seems to be making something happen (pushing the main character's grandmother down the stairs, for instance) or throwing in new characters (why is there a random new character? eeeeer....)
And I have been skimming your NaNo posts, and I had started a playlist of things that I thought might suit your purposes--not a long list, because so much of the folk music I happen to have is too American, and the instrumentals the wrong period, but we do have a bunch of George Winston if you're interested?--and there was one song, a sea shanty in French that mentions three sisters and is an old recording sung by two women or girls with rather unnervingly high and small voices, the kind of thing that would be easy to warp into something really creepy....and now, of course the computer crash has caused me to lose all of my iTunes playlists. So I have to find it again! But when I do I'll post a link.