Patty Blount
OMG, I listen to pretty much everything but rap and jazz. (They give me headaches).
In my playlists, you're as likely to find Drowning Pool, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Stone Sour, and Metallica as you are Neil Diamond. I'm not much of a pop music girl but I like Gaga, Pink, and totally love Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon. I also like some country music like Dierks Bentley, Benton Blount (no relation to me), and Zac Brown Band.
I use music to help me find the right mood to write certain scenes. When I was writing Some Boys, I listened to Rhiannon and Eminem sing Love the Way You Lie so I could write that scene in the cafeteria where Ian sells out Grace. When I was writing Nothing Left to Burn, I listed to Say Something by A Great Big World on repeat so I could nail Reece's scenes with his dad.
I don't often write TO music, though, because the song lyrics may end up in the book. I use music to influence my state of mind.
In my playlists, you're as likely to find Drowning Pool, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Stone Sour, and Metallica as you are Neil Diamond. I'm not much of a pop music girl but I like Gaga, Pink, and totally love Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon. I also like some country music like Dierks Bentley, Benton Blount (no relation to me), and Zac Brown Band.
I use music to help me find the right mood to write certain scenes. When I was writing Some Boys, I listened to Rhiannon and Eminem sing Love the Way You Lie so I could write that scene in the cafeteria where Ian sells out Grace. When I was writing Nothing Left to Burn, I listed to Say Something by A Great Big World on repeat so I could nail Reece's scenes with his dad.
I don't often write TO music, though, because the song lyrics may end up in the book. I use music to influence my state of mind.
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