Original Post: May 25 2010
Revised May 8 2013
Like a lot of writers, I listen to music while I write.
Certain genres go with certain stories for me, help me separate the different
worlds. If I’m listening to the wrong
music, I have trouble getting into the story, to concentrate properly. Like I can’t
listen to rock while I’m working with Kat (romance character). She is more
mellow, so more country to me. Now Blair (action/horror), I can only write her
to rock. (I mean rock from the eighties and nineties, though maybe 2004, and
hard rock) The type and artist change throughout her stories. Some scenes I
listen to the same few songs over and over until I finish the scene because
those songs put my mind in the right mindset for the scene. With Kat I’m not so
particular, as long as I’m not listening to rock/rock. I wrote my witch to country too. Most of my
short stories I write to a mix of all my music, though one of them I wrote
completely to a selection of New Age. Music just helps my muse, gives me a
background, a rhythm for my head to nod to.
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