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I've listened to alot of Deadmau5 while writing A Dance With Fury for some reason. Didn't listen to him at all before lol.
I have a playlist on Spotify, and certain songs match certain scenes, but as an overall, bringing-everything-together song...The Energy by Audiovent sort of ties everything together.
The Reflecting God by Marilyn Manson plays out over the final scene and end credits, specifically because the lyrics are perfect and the beats correspond with...um...someone getting their head beat in...
"The Water is Wide" lyrics sung by narrator in first chapter of WIP.
For "Caitlin Star" it was "Gotham's Reckoning" by Hans Zimmer from "The Dark Knight Rises" and "General Grievous" by John Williams from "Revenge of the Sith" for the action scenes. For the reflective character moments it was "My Immortal" by Evanescence.
You would be shocked but whenever I am writing the Broken Throne...I listen to epic fantasy and high fantasy soundtracks...say Skyrim soundtracks, Game of Thrones soundtracks...it is just so funny
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Uh...my first book is called the Rock Star so I'm going to have to go with It's A Long Way To The Top If You Want To Rock N Roll by AC/DC
I always listen to a wide variety of music while writing, which usually depends more on my mood than the mood of what I'm writing. If I had to pick a theme song for this novel, I'd probably go for Stress by Justice. I like thinking of techno/electronic songs to go with my novels, because they more often than not fit the vibe I'm going for, and I get to fill in the words with the words of my novel. In "Ragtag," my protagonist is going on a high-stress, horrifying, breakneck adventure, and I think Stress captures it perfectly.
I listen to the same music over and over when I write... Each story has its own soundtrack and I find the music gets me back into the character's head. Novel 1 was the d minor violin partita and basically Muse's entire discography. Evelyn Dae is a compilation of things, but Demons by imagine Dragons really speaks to me...
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Its funny how alot of the time one artist just speaks to us with writing, I have different artists for different parts of Fury but it has one song I listened to over and over. Vermillion has one song that was played alot while writing it, if you can guess what it was ;]
For me, I play a mixture of things like 'Awake' by Pillar, 'Outlaws' by Disciple, to 'One Minute' by Krewella. I've devised soundtracks during the writing of each book so far, but if I had a theme song to match each of my main characters, for Starling it would be: Icon for Hire 'Call me Alive' and for Cam`ael, it would definitely be: Love and Death 'Paralyzed' the Har Megiddio remix. Music definitely does inspire! I listen to a lot of dubstep, it fuels my creative adrenaline when devising fight and battle scenes between the divine warriors and the demons.
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Bisky wrote: "I listen to so much dubstep haha Celldweller's birthright was a real influence in Fury's fightscenes :D!"Hey Bisky!! LOL! That's what I'm talking about! I love Celldweller too! Their track 'Switchback' is a great one! All that music gets me pumped! I wish there was an easy, affordable way to collaborate with musicians that would allow authors to make their own book sound tracks, and include it with their books or audio books, in order to give readers the full effect. (Musicians would essentially be given free promotion and given exposure in return)Without all the legal, copyright, royalty and other issues involved...or maybe there could be? :D
Ethan wrote: "I always listen to a wide variety of music while writing, which usually depends more on my mood than the mood of what I'm writing. If I had to pick a theme song for this novel, I'd probably go for ..."I completely get that Ethan. I agree on the whole mood thing, I'm the same way too! I can go weeks with serious writers block, but when I hear or play a particular song, whether it's on television, or listening to Pandora or somewhere out and about, it totally clicks, spurring a sudden charge of creativity, which puts me in the mood and mind set to write, based on which character the song made me think of.
I have a poem in my book that I am trying to set to music. The scene is a bard playing a song to a group of adventurers.I contacted a local songwriter and he probided a great sample of what Je could do, but when I pushed for a price things started getting weird. When I insisted we complete the contract he disappeared.
I wish joining authors and songwriters was easy.
I thought this line was songs...But if we're talking about soundtracks that drive writing. I agree music is very important. I wrote about it in my blog at http://rockhardpress.com/#http://rock.... In which I stated music will drive your mood, no matter what state of mind your in, music has the ability to pick you up and transport you to a different time and place where your sense of self is morphed into who you were or what you were thinking when you first heard a song or record. I had a buddy who posted is Facebook that every time he hears Guns And Roses Appetite For Destruction that it takes him back to when the album first came out and we used the play the hell out of it during parties at my apartment in college where everyone used to hang out. And when he said that I could remember us jumping on my beaten couches screaming along to lyrics as we all did beer bongs while racing through one keg of beer after another as the security guards came over to complain about the loudness of our parties and we gave him the mandatory fifth of Jack Daniels so he wouldn't call in the cops...those were fun times. I've never written without music screaming in my ears. Sometimes it's hard and heavy and it gets my toes tapping and my heart beating and my fingers just fly over the keyboard, other times its slow and guides me through intense scenes, then there are still more times when it's just the white noise buffer that allows me to cut off the rest of the world as my brain falls into that imaginary place or time that I'm writing about.
I also created a YouTube playlist that I link to from my website. I use Pandora to discover new music that still fits the "theme". I guess my overall theme song for my debut, "Healer's Touch", would be The Feelers' (NZ band) song "Weapons of War". But the only truly conclusive song for me would be The Deftones' "Knife Party", which I consider my male protag's theme song.I love music. Sometimes it's distracting to write with, other times it's exactly what you need to tap into the muse.
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Bisky wrote: "I can't listen to songs with lots of lyrics :]"Yeah, that's common. I swing back and forth. Sometimes I can pretty well ignore old favourite songs that I know really well, and just take in the mood.
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@Susan: It's weird...I normally have songs that make me happy, but I really need to vary my music in order to remain in a writing mood. One day, I'll listen to bubblegum pop, the next day chamber metal. Never the same twice in a row.
My current book's theme is "Voodoo" by Godsmack.
If you promise that you won't laugh, I'll tell you the song that is the them to my first draft " uptown girl"
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For the most recent novella? Definitely 'Winterborn' by The Cruxshadows
@Bisky, it was the song i was listening to when I go the idea for the male lead
Argh, excitement. A local band posted a video on Facebook a few weeks ago (which I instantly fell in love with.) Thought the tone was perfect for my first book, and I joked about using it in a book trailer.
So Thursday night I got bored and messed around, sent the results onto them (they're local in that they're friends of friends) and not only are they more than happy for me to use it, but they're also retooling a 30" snipped for me to use to make it perfect for the clip (and so they sound awesome.)
I'm really excited about it and needed to squee at someone :)
The music to my book is "Raindance" you can hear it and watch the storyline video on my webpage: bit.ly/XAVR2b
Do you think it would make an appropriate soundtrack if the book was made into a film? Or does the song only match the scene in your head, and would surprise anyone else who heard it?