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What's Your Ritual?
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: RobJN on October 12, 2009, 08:03:39 PM ---I'm another writer that can't write in that "silence" that people seem to keep talking about. I need the music to tune out the other noises: TV, radio, lawnmowers, the 'clackity-clack' of the wife's keyboard on the other side of the room....
I've got playlists put together for the various pieces I'm working on, ranging from soundtrack, to classical, solo piano, acoustic guitar... to some symphonic rock, bit of alternative, a dash of techno... Whatever I can find that either fills the mood for a section, or serves to sum up a character. Other times, I need something to put the mind into that fat, sloppy delta-wave and let the ideas come a-rollin' on through...
Lately, the ritual has been starting the playlist with a character piece, or the story theme, and then letting it shuffle out and see where the tunes take me.
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Carrie Vaughn, writes a Denver talk radio female character that is a werewolf. She actually posts her music she listened too while writing. I never tried listening to the music while I read them, but it sounds like a fun idea. I think they are called Kitty and the... Pretty decent read when you can't find a new Butcher around..... :-)
Gritti:
All this talk of playlists to help with the moods of scenes and characters is starting to make me wonder if there might be something to it. I just might give it a try for the 4,000 word short story contest from WD. I'm thinking something for Halloween. Anyone got any musical suggestions besides the "Monster Mash" I'm interested.
Kid Longshot:
Perhaps selections from Nightmare Revisited? It's got the kind of spooky, hard sound that gets me in the mood for scary-ocity. I especially like "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" by Korn. It truly is greatness.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Kid Longshot on October 13, 2009, 05:14:50 AM ---Hm, I've never actually tried putting together playlists for writing moods. Sounds like it would be cool to help you get in the mood to write. Like, hard guitar for fights, easy ballads for romantic scenes, epic overtures for dramatic, plot-twisting goodness. :) You guys make me so hyped up to write.
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It's actually pretty helpful. Most of my music is from soundtracks, so sometime it can be pretty easy to put together a playlist. One of the ones I have is battles, and some of the tracks in that are Battle of Yavin(Star Wars), the music from the beginning battle in Gladiator and the music from the first Roman stadium battle, the battle from Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, and so forth.
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on October 13, 2009, 05:45:00 AM ---Carrie Vaughn, writes a Denver talk radio female character that is a werewolf. She actually posts her music she listened too while writing. I never tried listening to the music while I read them, but it sounds like a fun idea. I think they are called Kitty and the... Pretty decent read when you can't find a new Butcher around..... :-)
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I don't remember her doing that. I know Rachel Caine does in the Weather Warden series. But then it's been several months since I've read a Kitty book.
--- Quote from: Gritti on October 13, 2009, 08:03:26 AM ---All this talk of playlists to help with the moods of scenes and characters is starting to make me wonder if there might be something to it. I just might give it a try for the 4,000 word short story contest from WD. I'm thinking something for Halloween. Anyone got any musical suggestions besides the "Monster Mash" I'm interested.
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Only thing off the top of my head I can think of is Night on Bald Mountain. I'm sure it's part of a suite, or something, but the only thing I can remember it from is Fantasia. Oh, and themes to horror movies, like Halloween. I know there are quite a lot of songs, satellite radio usually has a station for a couple weeks up to Halloween, but I don't know what most are. And can't listen at work cause there's no reception.
Kid Longshot:
--- Quote from: Starbeam on October 13, 2009, 12:55:50 PM ---It's actually pretty helpful. Most of my music is from soundtracks, so sometime it can be pretty easy to put together a playlist. One of the ones I have is battles, and some of the tracks in that are Battle of Yavin(Star Wars), the music from the beginning battle in Gladiator and the music from the first Roman stadium battle, the battle from Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, and so forth.
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Cool. My CD collection is not quite as big as that to include many movie soundtrack CDs, but maybe that will change... I sure hope so. I will be putting together playlists from what I do have on my comp and see how that works for me. I can't wait to see how it affects my writing.
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