Using Music to Write
Music is powerful. It doesn’t seem so, but what’s your favorite hero without their theme music? If you don’t believe me - watch a movie trailer without the sound.
Why is this?
Language lives in one part of our brain. Music lives in another. When we plug music into our brains, it activates the music section. When we sit down to write with music in our brains, the brain is forced to multitask.This can be helpful on two fronts:
It forces the brain to focus.
Because our brain is focusing on our writing and the music at the same time, we tend to be less judgemental and critical in our writing.
Tuning out the judgement of our mind is beneficial. Editing can be done later. That’s when we need our critical mind.
We don’t need our critical mind when we’re writing.The critical mind slows us down. And I’ll talk about that next week.In the meantime, find some writing music and get back to NaNoWriMo!
Your stories are amazing.
Chronic Writer
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