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[Maria Caliban]

Does anyone have favorite tunes, albums, or playlists for writing?

What about songs they find fit their work or various character?

I've written 80% of my current WIP to Creamfields. It's a single trance 'song' broken into 7 individual tracks and provides about 43 minutes of music.

I usually find I can write for 43 minutes solid before I have to take a break and stretch.

For my main characters:
A Simple Man for Alistair
Saint Teresa for Leliana
Closer (NSFW/Explicit lyrics) and Engel for Morrigan

[Sheryl Chee]

Maria Caliban wrote...
Saint Teresa for Leliana

I love this song!  Why'd you pick this one in particular?

[ponozsticka]

I listen to many different kinds of music while writing. It all depends of type of story I´m trying to create, as well as my current mood. Starting with The Cranberries, or The Cardigans through Lacuna Coil ending with Disturbed.

Also sometimes music just affect me in different way than suspected (shorstories in my blog were written while listening to P.O.D.)



I like to have something to fill my mind while writing, but than it can´t be too suggestive, cause it will bring my story somewhere I don´t want it to be.

[Quixal]

For me there are no general favorites when writing. It all depends on the specific work or even particular characters. Most characters in my writing (and in my pen and paper campaigns) have theme songs.

[Amberyl Ravenclaw]

Inappropriate post. Heh.

Modifié par Amberyl Ravenclaw, 08 février 2010 - 08:59 .

[AdorableAnarchist]

I have entire playlists on my iPod of writing music. One is for fight scenes (Dropkick Murphy's, fight songs from Gladiator, etc.), one is for more mellow times, one is for romance...



I will also write with the TV on, a seven year-old yammering, several IM's going, and several stops to fold laundry. LOL I'm a working mom -- multitasking is my life.

[Maria Caliban]

Sheryl Chee wrote...

Maria Caliban wrote...
Saint Teresa for Leliana

I love this song!  Why'd you pick this one in particular?

Two related reasons. Three, actually, but the last one isn’t something I’d post on the forums.

The first is that I see Leliana and the historic Saint Teresa as being similar in ways. Both took what other members of the church saw as unorthodox viewpoints. I see both as being less religious and more mystical and spiritual in focus. Teresa’s idea that one should seek an intense, personal communion with the divine and that this would lead to a type of spiritual ecstasy seems something Leliana might experience.

The song itself expresses a hunger for that type of spiritual union in the modern, materialistic world. The singer sees her existence as largely hollow and finds that when it 'rises' in her, she find beauty and meaning in what was previously empty.

Modifié par Maria Caliban, 08 février 2010 - 09:10 .

[Sisimka]

I wrote two chapters at Chuck-e-Cheese once. Because I couldn't hear my daughter specifically in the awful noise I was able to to just tune it all out and write!



At home I swap between the radio and various CDs (I listen to everything from Elgar to Led Zeppelin to Gwen Stefani - my daughter's CD which I've kind of adopted). When I was writing really sad stuff last week I did notice I was listening to a lot of Radiohead. It usually depends more upon my mood than what I'm writing though, well, reading that back over, maybe not!



My characters do not have theme songs but the seed has been planted...they might just get some.

[Seagloom]

No favorites. Usually I play something that gets my blood pumping. Rock or metal, as fits my current mood. I need to feel alive when writing or it's too easy for me to get mired in proofreading and story analysis, and not just write.

If I'm writing a character that I feel identifies with a specific song then I pop that in and put it on repeat while working on their scene. When it's done I move on. It helps me get into their mindset. It also makes it more exciting to write them. I'm shallow that way, I guess.

Modifié par Seagloom, 08 février 2010 - 09:32 .

[Randomname1212]

I would either listen to relaxing music, or epic music from fantasy games/movies.

[Miliat]

It really depends on what I'm writing. Sometimes its just xm radio that I listen to. I have such varied tastes that depending on a scene I could be listening to Cradle of Filth one minute and switching to Loreena McKennitt the next. I tend to listen to more symphonic stuff while I draw though, like movie scores or symphonic metal like Nightwish.

[sapphyreelf]

I develop playlists for themes that characters seem to convey in my head when I want to write about them, but normally I have to listen to my Itunes library on shuffle until a song inspires me. From there, I generate a playlist from that song or two. There is no real rhyme or reason when you look at the selections though. It can go from adult contemporary to rock to classical to musicals to metal.

[-Conspirator]

I like listening to post-rock, like Mogwai or Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I also very much enjoy Gustavo Santaollala .

[tallon1982]

I tend to stick with symphonic themes while writing. Oddly enough it's usually Nobus Uematsu's work like:

Terra's Theme
Aerith's Theme
Theme of Love
Tsuki no Akari - Light of the Moon This one I use as a character theme for myself in the fanfic I've been writing. It's a variation of the theme of love.

Those are just a few I'll listen to while writing. I have a lot more. I'll drift from Nobuo to John Williams and James Horner. It just really depends on what I'm wanting to do.

Modifié par tallon1982, 08 février 2010 - 10:06 .

[Randomname1212]

Fact: R.A Salvatore likes to listen to WoW music while writing his fantasy books.

[tallon1982]

Oh I needed to add this one...

One Winged Angel - Advent Children

[Tasmen]

I listen to a lot of de/Vision, Mesh, Camouflage and Rotersand while I write. So, your basic melodic European (read: mostly German) synth pop.

[ReubenLiew]

I like to listen to this while I draw...

[Miliat]

Tasmen wrote...

I listen to a lot of de/Vision, Mesh, Camouflage and Rotersand while I write. So, your basic melodic European (read: mostly German) synth pop.

I cannot get enough of de/Vision. I just had to say that. I love them!

[Tasmen]

Miliat wrote...

Tasmen wrote...

I listen to a lot of de/Vision, Mesh, Camouflage and Rotersand while I write. So, your basic melodic European (read: mostly German) synth pop.

I cannot get enough of de/Vision. I just had to say that. I love them!

They seriously have some of the best music to write angstful stuff to imho.

[Miliat]

Tasmen wrote...

Miliat wrote...

Tasmen wrote...

I listen to a lot of de/Vision, Mesh, Camouflage and Rotersand while I write. So, your basic melodic European (read: mostly German) synth pop.

I cannot get enough of de/Vision. I just had to say that. I love them!

They seriously have some of the best music to write angstful stuff to imho.

Star-Crossed Lovers is my favorite and definitely a good angsty song for writing to.

[_Aine_]

edit: cause I can

Modifié par shantisands, 09 février 2010 - 02:29 .

[Tasmen]

Miliat wrote...

Star-Crossed Lovers is my favorite and definitely a good angsty song for writing to.

Ah yes, that's a good one.  I'm also partial to 'New Dawn', 'Heroine', and 'My Own Worst Enemy'. 

[Maria Caliban]

Or... maybe I'm just talking out my backside. It's been known to happen.

[Fates end]

Eh, I switch between Soundtracks and some other music for writing. Generally I listen to Thousand Foot Krutch and Jars of Clay (their song "hero" is quite inspiring to me.)



Anything by Hans Zimmer is good as well