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FrickingKaos:
I haven't really written a whole lot in the past week, I sprained a muscle in my neck last Sunday so for a few days it hurt to look down at my iPad or phone for long periods of time. Thankfully I had chapters done already that I could post so I'm glad I wrote ahead, it comes in handy for situations such as that.
FrickingKaos:
I sometimes listen to music when I'm writing at home, or I'll put a movie on for background noise. When I wrote If I Knew Then I basically watched Titanic every night and got super motivated that way. Not even sure why but I guess the love triangle of Nick, Brian and Leighanne was a little inspired from that towards the second half of the story. But with this new story I find that I'm watching old interviews and things from whatever time period I am working on since it's got so many flashbacks. Most of the time I write with no music.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on March 08, 2021, 07:15:42 PM ---I haven't really written a whole lot in the past week, I sprained a muscle in my neck last Sunday so for a few days it hurt to look down at my iPad or phone for long periods of time. Thankfully I had chapters done already that I could post so I'm glad I wrote ahead, it comes in handy for situations such as that.
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I bet! I have done that before, and it hurts so bad. Hope you're feeling better!
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on March 08, 2021, 07:19:37 PM ---I sometimes listen to music when I'm writing at home, or I'll put a movie on for background noise. When I wrote If I Knew Then I basically watched Titanic every night and got super motivated that way. Not even sure why but I guess the love triangle of Nick, Brian and Leighanne was a little inspired from that towards the second half of the story. But with this new story I find that I'm watching old interviews and things from whatever time period I am working on since it's got so many flashbacks. Most of the time I write with no music.
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I love how much Titanic inspired you for the end of the story! I listen to Titanic music sometimes while writing, but I've never tried playing the actual movie in the background. I think it would be like music with lyrics and just distract me because I would end up reciting all the lines along with the actors, which I already find myself doing when I watch that movie LOL. I watch movies to get inspired before writing, but not usually while I'm actually writing.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on March 08, 2021, 06:57:47 PM ---Sure! I'm almost always listening to something when I write. Usually it's instrumental music that fits the mood of the scene, but sometimes I change it up. I found this ambience video on YouTube a few years ago called "Beside Life Support" that is literally just a heart monitor and ventilator sound effect looped for an hour. I laughed at it at first, but then I tried playing it while I was writing an ICU scene, and it actually did help me focus and get into the scene. So I bust that out for scenes where it's appropriate. One of the top comments says "Who's here because they're writing fanfiction?" so I guess I'm not the only weirdo who does that LOL. I also listened to the ER score when I was writing my ER crossover; it made my trauma room scenes feel so much more dramatic LOL. And of course I listened to Harry Potter music while working on my HP crossover.
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I know you enjoyed ambient mood type stuff while you write. I love that the top comment is "who's here writing fanfiction" because I can't really think of a reason to listen to a looped heart monitor/ventilator for an hour unless it was for setting a mood while writing, some sort of art project, or other creative outlet that needed that immersion inspiration. I thought of a couple half way through writing this, but I still feel like creative pursuits would be the primary reason.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on March 08, 2021, 06:57:47 PM ---If I'm writing about BSB from the past, I sometimes play their songs from that time period. My current story is set in the Unbreakable era, so I listened to that album last week, and one of these weekends I'll watch the concert. I'm waiting until I'm closer to the tour part of the story. I think I posted about watching interviews from that era, which was helpful in reminding me of specific details I can include at some point, like Brian's big-ass white high-tops he wore all the time and AJ's guyliner.
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ARok had to contrast each other! big-ass white high-tops and guyliner are opposites! Oh 2007... What a time the late 00's were. That was back when I rocked a bumpit and hair poufs to high heaven -- there's pictures from a friend's wedding where it was larger than my forehead!
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on March 08, 2021, 07:19:37 PM ---I sometimes listen to music when I'm writing at home, or I'll put a movie on for background noise. When I wrote If I Knew Then I basically watched Titanic every night and got super motivated that way. Not even sure why but I guess the love triangle of Nick, Brian and Leighanne was a little inspired from that towards the second half of the story. But with this new story I find that I'm watching old interviews and things from whatever time period I am working on since it's got so many flashbacks. Most of the time I write with no music.
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What a great movie to inspire a love triangle from. There was a legitimate argument on each side and not just "Oh noes, two boys are in love with plain old ordinary me! I must brood about it instead of spending time with both of them and choosing one!"
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on March 08, 2021, 07:15:42 PM ---I haven't really written a whole lot in the past week, I sprained a muscle in my neck last Sunday so for a few days it hurt to look down at my iPad or phone for long periods of time. Thankfully I had chapters done already that I could post so I'm glad I wrote ahead, it comes in handy for situations such as that.
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Sorry you've been hurting! Neck sprains and tweaks are the worst; I never realize how much I use my neck until I can't. I hope you're feeling better!
FrickingKaos:
Lol the way you replied to the love triangle makes it sound like Nick was into Leighanne too but I just want to point out that he was NOT haha. Nick loves Brian, Brian loves Nick but is in denial and loves Leighanne. Leighanne and Nick are friends but she secretly hates him, and Leighanne loves Brian. If that makes ANY sense at all. It's just very complicated lmao
I'm still in pain but I'm taking the injury day by day. It's definitely getting better but it's going to be a bit before I am back to normal again.
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