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PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:27 pm


It sounds like a strange topic I know but I was wonder what your opinions are. I personally find music very helpful when I need to write a scene and can't get it to sound write. I find a piece of music that reflects the mood I desire and write. I find the noise in the back ground makes it easier for me to focus.

However many authors chastise this, they say it channels the composer's thoughts rather than your own. Which I can understand, however I don't agree with.
PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:32 pm


I also don't agree with the idea that listening to music while writing channels the composer's thoughts. I think that if you pick the correct song/type of music as to what you are writing, then it only enhances your work. I like to listen to E.S. Posthumus while I write because they have so many different styles of music, even on one CD. And it's instrumental, so I don't have to worry about lyrics or anything.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:33 pm


I don't write often and I'm more of a reader but I find that I do write better on stuff when I have music that fits what I'm writing. I even get songs stuck in my head based on what I'm writing about if I'm not playing music. (Weird huh?)
PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:37 pm


I don't think it's weird, honestly sounds normal to me lol. I kind of do the same thing.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:58 pm


I choose the music I listen to.
In one story I did, I had a playlist that was actually my character's favorite songs. It really helped me to get into it.
PostPosted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:35 am


It's like an itch that can't be scratched. It's discordant and the lyrics that can be discerned are those of melancholic life in a plastic bubble. Theres a certain schizophrenic stammer of suffering and misanthropy.

While I am Kid A I listen to Kid A, humans.

The album speaks to me in soft whispering lulls, telling me of the unbalance in my unsettled mind.

It allows me to focus on the innermost thoughts however disparaging and pen them to paper. My twitching and nervous digits tick, tick, tick away until simple words turn to flowing paragraphs of emotion previously hidden from my waking mind.

It starts with a simple sound, a tone somewhat like a bell, interrupted by a voice that throws open the flood gates of my ego. For a moment the constant static is clear, but once it ends I am left a shadow of what I've written.

For some humans, music brings joy. For Kid A it brings function and clarity.

Paranoid Android Kid A


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:23 pm


One really fun activity to do is to make a really random playlist with classical almost church hymns, hard core screamo songs and a sprinkle of your own personal favorite songs, randomize it and then just write. It is an amazing way to get a random plot line and great characters with strange personalities and life changing twists.

I personally like to listen to japanese anime music when I write. The lyrics make no sense whatsoever to me so I can't concentrate on them, but there is an up and positive beat to it that keeps me focused and moving.
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