14 days of writing tips, Day 7: Make a playlist for your story

Today on writing inspiration, my idea is...

7.     Make a playlist for your story.

Sometimes visuals aren’t enough for inspiration, and you need the help of music. With my stories, I nearly always end up choosing certain songs as the definitive songs that mean this story and these characters. It’s their song, man! Or rather, their songs, plural. Once I’ve decided what those songs are—or, more accurately, once those songs have popped up in my life and...