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Question of the day thread number 2!
Pengi:
I use music for songs but only until I have a grasp on the story. Then I need quiet. In my head, music interacts with my writing like those musical interludes in movies... I hear the song and I can picture these like quick flashes of scenes and bits of dialogue that create a feeling or a general storyline. Then the music ends and the story moves into actually being formed. I very rarely will have a song playing while I write and if I do it's turned down very quiet so it's like background music and it's one song on repeat. Because eventually I lose the ability to really hear the lyrics if it's on repeat, it becomes a mood.
And honestly its extremely rare that my stories are inspired by BSB songs. I might use BSB songs at certain points within a story, because they do inspire scenes, but usually the "theme" or the major contributing song to the story isn't even them. Looking back at my "soundtracks" playlists, it's most usually been NeedtoBreathe that have inspired stories with their songs. Like Something Beautiful was after their song of the same title.
Oddly enough the Borrowed Time theme song is 2am by Anna Nalick, if anyone's curious.
FrickingKaos:
Yeah when I began my clone stories it was inspired by a Weird Al Song "I Think I'm A Clone Now". For my romance series I was inspired by Shania Twain.
RokofAges75:
I used to be more influenced by music than I am now. Music usually doesn't inspire my ideas, more just feelings, like Hannah said. When I was writing Broken and BMS, I had a whole playlist of "Nick & Claire" songs that just fit the dynamic of their relationship, and I would listen to those songs to get into the mood. I also listened to a lot of classical music and movie scores when I was writing those stories, which did help me get into the zone to write, but also could be partly why those stories are so over-the-top melodramatic LOL. I wrote a lot of Broken to the Braveheart soundtrack - well, shit, how can you not be angsty and dramatic with Braveheart music playing in the background? LOL It's a great score, one of my favorites, but looking back, I think that explains a lot! LOL
I don't listen to music as much when I write these days. Sometimes it still helps to settle me down or get me in the right mindset to write, but more often than not, it just distracts me. If I'm writing a really emotional scene, sometimes it does help set the tone, like background music in a movie, but only with certain stories. It worked with Broken and BMS, but with Curtain Call, it always felt way too cheesy. I had to write Curtain Call in silence. Same subject matter, completely different tone. Actually, the one song that did really inspire me with Curtain Call was Queen's "The Show Must Go On." It was the anthem for CC.
As far as being inspired by certain BSB songs, I'm usually not. I can't think of a whole story I've written that was inspired by a BSB song. "Siberia" inspired a certain scene in BMS that I wish I had not written - shoulda saved it for a songfic! I name stories after BSB lyrics, but that's only when they already fit the idea - like "Watch Me as I Bleed" and "In Pieces" would be a very literal translation of the lyrics of that song LOL. The only song in recent years that has inspired me to write a whole story isn't a BSB song, but a James Blunt one, "Annie." I'm not a songfic person, but that song has a story to it that hooked me right away, and I always knew I wanted to write a short story based on it. It's a great song.
mare:
The Braveheart. Soundtrack is one of my all time favorite ones too. I hate the movie but would put it on in the background and just listen to the music before I bought the CD lol
RokofAges75:
Yeah, the Braveheart score is beautiful! That one, Titanic, and Pirates of the Caribbean are my favorite movie soundtracks, along with pretty much anything John Williams has done - Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc.
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