What's playing on your iPods while you write? Does it need to fit the tone of the work, informing your writing? Or do you just need something loud to but a barrier between your brain and the outside world?
I know Stephen King writes best to Heavy Metal. I've tried writing to more mellow stuff, but my energy falls quickly.
I think peppy, without being overpowering is the way to go. So far, the Talking Heads, seems to work,
How about the rest of you? What music keeps your fingers moving?
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Nov 6, 2009 - 07 36
i've been listening to jay-z and jill scott for the past three days, but i think i'm going to have to change it up and listen to something not in english: lyrics are way too distracting. as it is i've been alternating between no music whatsoever and an hour or so of noise. i think when the time comes for me to really buckle down and pump out 10,000 words at a go i'll have to do it entirely in silence since i am mentally reading to myself as i type (does anyone else do that?).
too bad none of my characters are depressed or living in wintry climates. sigur ros would have been bula awesome.
at some point a religious radio host's antics figures into my plot (maybe?) so i might turn the radio on to the harvest station, i think it's something like 88 whatever.
in the meantime, i wish patsy cline sang in spanish.
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Nov 6, 2009 - 09 35
I'm listening to a fairly straight diet of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds for this novel... great musician - dark, edgy, and twisted at times - soulful at others... but it really helps me set the mood and stay in the right frame of mind for writing this story.
On the other hand.. my rough outline is fast going out the window, as the characters take on their own life and take charge of where the story seems to be going...
I can't write in silence... I've tried, but when I do, a gazillion different things start intruding on my thoughts and I lose the focus on writing the story. Luckily for my husband, he's going stateside tomorrow - so he won't be stuck listening to Nick Cave on an endless loop lol :-)
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Nov 8, 2009 - 02 50
i'm listening to the Clockwork Cabaret, a Steampunk podcast. great music and it has enough variety that i can stay interested.
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Nov 8, 2009 - 02 54
I prefer silence!
But I'm at Coffee Care, writing, (well, now done for the day) and hearing whatever they have on--some blues of some sort, and Korean chatter in the dining area, and Tagalog chatter behind teh counter, and the football game on the television! All ambient sounds. I tune it out.
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