Writing and Classical Music: Notes on How Music Can Help with Creativity

Classical music can aid with writing or any creative project. The notes are relaxing and can help create a great flow in the thought process. So I often find myself listening to Bach, Chopin and Boccherini and then I am more focused on my literary tasks.

Or even nature sounds can be an aid in this way, as we return to our primordial past, and what talents it can bring to us now. Baroque though can be best, as it’s the most relaxing, even-paced, quiet.

Or I will listen to music depending on what project I am working on. Such as with my current A Modern Mr. Darcy story I enjoy Regency music or in particular the soundtrack from the 1996 movie version of Emma. With my Kate Hawkins series I like Boccherini from the Master and Commander soundtrack with Russell Crowe. All very inspirational.

So whatever project you may be working on I hope you will give music a try––it just may be something that really sings to you!––L.P. Kirkbride, March, 2022