Finding Your Muse with Music
Do you like to write to music or do you need silence? I find so much inspiration in music, and I will play a piece over and over if I feel it is helping me set the tone for a chapter.
‘Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato
Why I Think Music is Important for Imagination:1. Music is emotive and stirs up imagery. Music conjures up feelings that relate to memories or allows are minds to wander on a daydream using the creative part of our brains.
2. Music is known to be useful for increasing energy levels and motivation. It can also help to listen to fast tempo and upbeat songs for fast action chapters and vice versa.
Surgeons are known to listen to music to either calm them or keep them working to a certain speed.
‘Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.’ – Leonard Bernstein
What do you think? Would you try listening to different genres of music to see if it sparks creativity?
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