I assume you know about Pavlov's dog.
If you don't, go check this out; I'll wait.
::whistles politely::
::provides illustration for the rest of us, while you're reading::
Back?
All righty, then.
I have learned to create soundtracks for my writing, because once my brain associates music with the writing process, it becomes easier to actually--you know--get into it.
Do you know what a blog tour is? (Does this sound like one of my typical digressions where I wander away from the topic and leave you going "wtf?" Well, this is exactly like one of my typical digressions--because it has a point! Wait for it.*)
(*Well, you always wait for it, and when you're lucky, I still remember it when I get there.)
(This is the best advertisement for my teaching EVER. Because clearly everybody will want to take a class from someone who can't stick to the topic without wandering around the world taking sidetrips, right?)
(Right.)
A blog tour is when an author promotes a new book by taking a tour of other people's blogs and writing new entries for all of them, so that a wide new potential audience of readers will be exposed to them, their work, and hopefully go buy their new book.
(See, even though this is a digression, it's still educational. But, I digress.)
I mentioned Marie Brennan's new book before, when I mentioned it's an illustrated novel. Well, I'm mentioning it again, because she's on a blog tour promoting the new novel, and I keep tripping over interesting things she's written.
Which is when we get back to the soundtrack theory. She describes the soundtrack she created for a "Natural History of Dragons" here.
She describes the process she used in choosing music.
The first time I had a soundtrack was quite by accident. I discovered that playing Christmas music helped me write a script that took place on Christmas Eve, even though I was writing in July. It was quite brilliant, really. Plug in the earbuds and suddenly I'm in my imaginary world where it's always Christmas Eve... until midnight, I mean, when it's Christmas. Yay!
Next project was about a group of women from South Carolina who end up in England. That was trickier, until I discovered Carolina Beach Music. Not only did I have a new view of the world I was writing about, but I also had a kind of music that joined four generations of South Carolina women and the secrets they were hiding.
And since then, the beat goes on. I now always create a soundtrack. This is no guarantee that the muse will cooperate, but it certainly pleases her more often than not.
What about you? Do you use music to tempt the muse?
If you don't, go check this out; I'll wait.
::whistles politely::
::provides illustration for the rest of us, while you're reading::
All righty, then.
I have learned to create soundtracks for my writing, because once my brain associates music with the writing process, it becomes easier to actually--you know--get into it.
Do you know what a blog tour is? (Does this sound like one of my typical digressions where I wander away from the topic and leave you going "wtf?" Well, this is exactly like one of my typical digressions--because it has a point! Wait for it.*)
(*Well, you always wait for it, and when you're lucky, I still remember it when I get there.)
(This is the best advertisement for my teaching EVER. Because clearly everybody will want to take a class from someone who can't stick to the topic without wandering around the world taking sidetrips, right?)
(Right.)
A blog tour is when an author promotes a new book by taking a tour of other people's blogs and writing new entries for all of them, so that a wide new potential audience of readers will be exposed to them, their work, and hopefully go buy their new book.
(See, even though this is a digression, it's still educational. But, I digress.)
I mentioned Marie Brennan's new book before, when I mentioned it's an illustrated novel. Well, I'm mentioning it again, because she's on a blog tour promoting the new novel, and I keep tripping over interesting things she's written.
Which is when we get back to the soundtrack theory. She describes the soundtrack she created for a "Natural History of Dragons" here.
She describes the process she used in choosing music.
The first time I had a soundtrack was quite by accident. I discovered that playing Christmas music helped me write a script that took place on Christmas Eve, even though I was writing in July. It was quite brilliant, really. Plug in the earbuds and suddenly I'm in my imaginary world where it's always Christmas Eve... until midnight, I mean, when it's Christmas. Yay!
Next project was about a group of women from South Carolina who end up in England. That was trickier, until I discovered Carolina Beach Music. Not only did I have a new view of the world I was writing about, but I also had a kind of music that joined four generations of South Carolina women and the secrets they were hiding.
And since then, the beat goes on. I now always create a soundtrack. This is no guarantee that the muse will cooperate, but it certainly pleases her more often than not.
What about you? Do you use music to tempt the muse?
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