Shinedown-If You Only Knew

Lady Gaga-Bad Romance

Maroon 5-Harder To Breathe

Linkin Park-The Little Things Give You Away

Rascal Flatts-What Hurts The Most

Nick Lachey-What's Left Of Me

Savage Garden-I Want You

Butterfly and Speed Over Beethoven from DDR

Avril Lavigne-My Happy Ending

Muse-Time Is Running Out

Shinedown-Second Chance

Eve 6-Here's To The Night

Lady Gaga-Paparrazzi

Nickelback-Someday

Linkin Park-Leave Out All The Rest

Better Than Ezra-Desperately Wanting

Aerosmith-Jaded

Muse-Hysteria

Nickelback-Burn It To The Ground

Avril Lavigne-Girlfriend

Lady Gaga-Poker Face

Guns and Roses-November Rain

That's just a partial list. I don't want to bore you with everything I listened to this month. Starting on Tuesday, things are going back to normal and I'll be more regular on my posts. Enjoy your weekend, get your word count done, and remember that it's almost over. Sleep is for December.

Part of what I learned this year was that if it can go wrong, it will. Murphy's law or something like that. Let's see what happened this month...For the first seven days of the month, I was sicker than a dog. I could barely get up enough energy to eat or bathe, let alone write. I haven't been that sick since February when I had the flu.

Once I'd gotten over that mess, my computer crashed. Twice. In twenty minutes. It wasn't a big set back, but it was a set back that I could hardly afford since I was so far behind. Then my husband's computer caught a virus and stopped working. There went another week and a half.

My saving grace was my office space. Without Fireworks, I don't think I would've made it. I wrote over 6,000 words here last Saturday, 4,000 the Saturday before, and 5,000 tonight. It's amazing to me how much work you honestly can get done when you're in the place where the creativity is booming. That and the spectacular coffee.

I still have until Monday to write and I might actually hit my personal goal of 53,000 words this year. Whatever happens from here is just icing on the cake. All that matters to me right now is that I did it. I did it when I thought I wouldn't be able to. And I did it with time to spare.

If I can get there with all the distractions and problems in my personal life this month, you can do it too. Stop reading this right now and get your word count in. If you want it bad enough, nothing can stop you. Not the TV on sale at Walmart, not the remnants of Triptophen in your system from the turkey yesterday or the headache in the back of your skull at the sound of Christmas music. If you want it, you'll get it. And trust me on this one, you want it.

With my word count available to you at the right, you can see how I'm doing so far this month. There's about nine days left in the month and I'm just barely over half way through. Why this year is causing such a problem is totally beyond me.

The one thing I can tell you is that it's not about preparation. I couldn't have started Nano this year with any more preparation than I did this year. I knew what I was writing about, I knew my characters and my plot. When I get the chance to get some work done, I have no problems with it.

But first I got sick. Really sick. Then Nathan's computer broke and he needed mine for a few days after he re formatted my tiny laptop. Add to that the hours I've been working and the sheer exhaustion I've been dealing with and it's been a rough month.

Then everything fell into place for my last ten days. I have a week off of work and nothing serious planned before Thanksgiving. If I can keep cranking out five pages every single time I sit down, I might just make this work out.

December is just over a week away people. Then things can go back to normal.

As of this very moment, I'm sitting at 11,195 words. It's not great, but it could be worse.

Posts for the rest of the month are going to be limited by my word count, I'm sorry for that. I just don't have time to keep up on here as much as I would like to while Nanoing. It's horrible of me, I know it, but that's life.

Here's your weekly music to write by:

My Happy Ending-Avril Lavigne

Harder To Breathe-Maroon 5

Gives You Hell-The All American Rejects

Uprising-Muse

Burn It To The Ground-Nickelback

Butterfly-Music from DDR (Dance Dance Revolution for you uncool people)

Gotta Be Somebody-Nickelback

Motions-Mathew West

Leave Out All The Rest-Linkin Park

Time Is Running Out-Muse

Unforgiven 2-Metallica

Iron Man-Black Sabbath

Move Along-The All American Rejects

Back Here-BBMak

The Dope Show-Marilyn Manson

Stupid Girl-Garbage

Frozen-Madonna

Go All The Way (Into The Twilight)-Perry Farrell (The Twilight Soundtrack)

Meet Me On The Equinox-Death Cab For Cutie (I'm obsessed, I know it)

There's a lot more, but I'll save it for later. I'm going to take a nap I think before going out and having a life later on tonight. Have a good weekend and if you're behind on your word count, why are you reading my blog? Go write! Win!