Day 6- Gunpowder, treason and plot holes

As you may notice I'm not quite on course yet. This is just a blip and you'll soon see my work pick up as my characters get their teeth into the plot. A totally unexpected and entertaining character has suddenly emerged from an incidental detail and threatens to unseat one of my main characters and I have to decide whether to dial down his personality or just kill him outright. I think I'll go for the third option...
Incidentally, I contribute another explosive Weebl's Stuff article here. Feel free to go ooh and ah. But don't return to it after you've read it.

Day 1- Pirate Music

Off to a cracking start! Didn't make 2000 words but I'm pleased with my haul.
I'm going to listen to music while I write but am not confining my soundtrack entirely to shanties and the sound of people dying from scurvy. I'm adding some classical music from the period (which also has plot significance), Tom Waits' Rain Dogs for some crusty colour, and Ultralounge's Mondo Exotica album because sometimes pirates drank cocktails. Or at least they do in my book.