If you’ve been paying attention, you would have noticed that I have been making a playlist for my NaNo project Winterheart. Well 24 songs – and a couple of Christmas albums – later I have finally reached the point of “enough”.
One-sentence story blurb: A teenage girl must find her way through a frozen London to rescue her best friend from Winter herself.
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So it’s October now, and that means NaNo is going to be here very very soon.
And of course that means I have been working on a playlist for the NaNo novel (which is called Winterheart).
As you can probably guess, Winterheart takes place in the week and a bit before Christmas. 
This is nowhere near the finalised playlist (as I still have to do some re-ordering and find more songs) but it definitely gives you an idea of it all.
And for the curious, my NaNo username is Amynta.
I’ve been looking through a lot of my old notebooks, my old files on my external hard-drive that survived the great laptop crash of 2009. Sometimes I’m surprised to see what I have written – I’ve plum forgot so much, it seems.
Anyway, this is something I found in one of these files.
She’s older and greying now, but still beautiful.
When she was young and foolish the gap didn’t matter. Now it does.
Now it does.
It’s a day they’ve known was going to come, the moment old age really slithered around them both. But while the curse is only starting to touch her, she’s been married to an old man for a long time.
And the day has come. Today she has woken from sleep; he has not.
He’s cold and still lying next to her in their bed. The only warmth about him are the tears falling onto his cheek.