InsaneJournal

Current mood:	morose
Current music:	Poets of the Fall
Entry tags:	books, nanowrimo

Explanations
The title of my journal is adapted from one of Haruki Murakami's novels, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. In all honesty, I didn't finish that one. I have three or four of his novels; they all seem like they would be excellent reads but none of them have quite caught my attention like the first one I read did. Mannequin came from Mannikin, which was one of my very first fanfic names. Back in the day. It's a memorial.

The subtitle is a line from one of Poets of the Fall's songs. "And in the emptiness there's a solution/Just look within yourself for absolution". POTF has consistently been my favourite band, my soul music, for four years. It seems like longer. I can listen to each song a hundred times and still find something relavent in the beautiful lyrics. I can remember places, people, moments, when I listen to POTF, because it's like the memories have attached themselves to the music like a diary accumulating days.

NaNoWriMo in four days. I think, in a horribly hopeful way, that for the very reason that this year it's near impossible (I'm flying to Portugal for a week to work for charity, and before that three days in Munich for a debate tournament), it's going to be different from the other four years I've done NaNoWriMo. I've never won. 50,000 words in a month? I used to be able to write that. I used to. :( Did I grow up, is that what happened?