Young Writers Society

Day Twenty

Working on: Liz+Zac Reboot
Word crawl of the day: NaNo Academy Crawl
Listened to:
Finishing up Swan Lake
*Memoirs of a Gesha (brought to you by Satoko Miyahara's Olympic short program)

Words written today: 734
Total manuscript words: 13154
Total NaNo words: 25755

Favorite line of the day:
I didn’t need this from Zac. He was testing my resolve to not have any feelings for him.

Day Twenty-One

Working on: Liz + Zac Reboot!
Word crawl of the day: NaNo Academy crawl
Listened to:
Finishing Memoirs of a Geisha
*Also watched the ladies at the Rostelecom Cup while writing because Russia is pretending covid isn't a thing
*Puccini's Madame Butterfly (brought to you by Satoko Miyahara's 4th place finish at the 2018 olympics - this is actually from an earlier competition that year because the olympic skate is tragically not available...)


Words written today: 3152
Total manuscript words: 16306
Total NaNo words: 28907

Favorite line of the day:
this whole text conversation between a certain liz and a certain zac

Day Twenty-Two

Working on: Liz + Zac Reboot
Word crawl of the day: NaNo Academy Crawl
Listened to:
*some more Madame Butterfly
*Ne Me Quitte Pas (brought to you by Carolina Kostner's STUNNING 2018 Olympic short program)
*Prelude of the afternoon of the fawn (brought to you by Carolina Kostner's 5th place 2018 Olympic free skate)

Words written today: 2798
Total manuscript words: 19104
Total NaNo words: 31705

Favorite line of the day:
But there was something untethered about this. Something in the way that he looked into my eyes that I had never quite felt before.


AM NOW A MERE 4969 WORDS BEHIND. I WILL DO THIS.

Day Twenty-Three

Working on: Liz + Zac Reboot
Word crawl of the day: NaNo Academy Crawl
Listened to:
Onto the 2014 Olympics now!
*Parisienne Walkways (brought to you by BABY Yuzuru Hanyu's 2014 Olympic Short Program - this is SOOOOO good!! He was the first person to break 100 points in a short program with this skate. LOVE YUZU <3)
*Romeo & Juliet - 1968 movie soundtrack version (brought to you by Yuzuru Hanyu's 2014 Olympic gold medal winning free skate!
*Elegie in Eb minor (brought to you by Patrick Chan's 2014 Olympic short program)
*Concerto Grosso by Corelli (brought to you by Patrick Chan's 2014 Olympic silver medal winning free skate - at 23:56)

Words written today: 2004
Total manuscript words: 21092
Total NaNo words: 33709

Favorite line of the day:
Was I going to now spend the entire weekend preparing a mini recital for him whenever I was able to play for him in person? 100% yes.


Am now a mere 4632 words behind!!!!
50k is an attainable goal!

Day Twenty-Four

Working on: Liz+Zac Reboot
Word crawl of the day: NaNo Academy Crawl
Listened to:
*Danse Macabre (brought to you by Denis Ten's 2014 Olympic short program)

Words written today: um. 153....
Total manuscript words: 21245
Total NaNo words: 33862

Favorite line of the day:

Day Twenty-Five

Working on: L+Z Reboot
Word crawl of the day: Nano Academy Crawl
Listened to:
*The Lady and the Hooligan (brought to you by Denis Ten's 2014 Olympic bronze medal winning performance - 1:51:19, the first Olympic medal in figure skating for Kazakhstan. Denis was tragically murdered in his home country in 2018 in a robbery.

Words written today: 1169
Total manuscript words: 22414
Total NaNo words: 35031

Favorite line of the day:

Day Twenty-Six (Day one of NaNo Hail Mary Weekend)

Working on: L+Z Reboot
Word crawl of the day: Nano Academy Crawl
Listened to:
Finishing The Lady and the Hooligan
*Satan takes a Holiday (brought to you by Javier Fernandez's 2014 Olympic short program)
*Peter Gunn soundtrack & Harlem Nocturne (brought to you by Javier Fernandez's 2014 4th place Olympic free skate - 2:47:36)
*East of Eden by Lee Holdridge (brought to you by Tatsuki Machida's 2014 Olympic short program - 4:53:47)
*The Firebird (brought to you by Tatsuki Machida's 2014 5th place Olympic free skate - I can only find his Worlds performance from the same year. This is an OUTFIT.

Words written today: 4993
Total manuscript words: 27407
Total NaNo words: 40024

Favorite line of the day:
It's all a blur :p


A MERE 3318 WORDS BEHIND NOW.
WATCH MY COME FROM BEHIND HAIL MARY FINISH YA'LL.
MY PLAN IS EVEN TO FINISH EARLY.
WHO. WOULD. HAVE. THOUGHT.

Day Twenty-Seven (Day two of NaNo Hail Mary Weekend!)

Working on: Liz + Zac Reboot
Word crawl of the day: Finished the NaNo Academy crawl, started the Oh God NaNo Ends Soon Crawl
Listened to:
*Carmen suite (brought to you by Adelina Sotnikova's 2014 Olympic short program)
*Introduction + Rondo Capriccioso op. 28 (brought to you by Adelina Sotnikova's 2014 gold medal winning Olympic free skate - and you can go down a whole rabbit hole about whether or not she should have won this and some of the alleged shady business that went on to get her this medal...
*Send in the clowns -listened to the whole musical it was in, A little night music (brought to you by QUEEN Yuna Kim's STUNNINGGGG 2014 Olympic short program <3)
*Adios Nonimo (brought to you by Queen Yuna Kim's incredible 2014 silver medal should've taken gold but that's a whole rabbit hole....... Olympic free skate)
*Ave Maria - Schubert (brought to you by Carolina Kostner's BEAUTIFUL 2014 Olympic short program)
*Bolero (brought to you by Carolina Kostner's 2014 bronze medal winning Olympic free skate)
*Piano Concerto in A Minor (brought to you by MY QUEEN Gracie Gold's 2014 Olympic short program - I can only find her skate from Nationals that year, but you get the idea.
*The Sleeping Beauty (brought to you by Gracie Gold's 2014 4th place Olympic free skate - again, can only find her Nationals version, but this skate is so, so special <3 <3 <3

Words written today: 4990
Total manuscript words: 32397
Total NaNo words: 45014

Favorite line of the day:


WOULD YA BELIEVE THAT I USED TO BE 8100 BEHIND AND NOW. I. AM. CAUGHT. UP. FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE LIKE DAY 3!!!!

Day Twenty-Eight

Working on: Liz+Zac Reboot!
Word crawl of the day: Oh God NaNo End Soon Crawl
Listened to:
*Finishing The Sleeping Beauty
*You Don't Give Up on Love (brought to you by Yulia Lipnitskaya's INCREDIBLE 2014 Olympic short program - love her, miss her, her SPINNNSSSSSS)
*Schindler's List (brought to you by Yulia Lipnitskaya's INCREDIBLE AMAZING 5th place finish at the 2014 Olympics - one of my all time FAVORITE programs EVER. This was from the team event because she didn't do as well in the individual competition.
*Scheherazade (brought to you by Evan Lysacek's 2010 gold medal winning Olympic free skate - he skated to Firebird in the short and since I've already listened to that I skipped on over to Scheherazade which is PERFECT because this is my SONG when writing L+Z and I'm about to win Nano <3

Words written today: 4996
Total manuscript words: 37393
Total NaNo words: 50,010

Favorite line of the day:
I wrote a really cute/awkward first kiss scene <3