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Matching song feeling to your prose
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I tend to use music heavily to influence my own mood. Each story I write has a distinct playlist associated with it, with smaller playlists depending on the mood of the scene.Nothing worse than being bouncy happy during a tear-jerker scene. Music has saved me a lot.
Jim, cool idea. I find I like silence or else the general clamor of coffee shop background or bar.
Silence makes my writing rather dull, because my mind roams too many directions. Coffee shops drive me batty because invariably, there's someone who'll wander by every time I get deep into a thought, asking what I'm doing or whether I need something.
Jim, for coffee shop writing you need to give the withering glare.
I need to work on my glare. It seems to be defective.
Oh, come on. Women learn as girls how to give the withering glance to unwanted advances.
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You're right. My withering glance is awesome.
"Come hither, o thou withering glance."
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"Do you need anything?"
*withering glare* "YOU'RE INTERRUPTING MY THOUGHTS!!!! I'm going to write some very bad things about you in my next book!"
The best technique is if you can learn how to fart on command, loudly. Very effective.
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Can I just adopt my mom's "I'm-so-disappointed-in-you" look instead of the withering glance?But I love to have music playing when I'm writing. It can totally set the mood and help a scene flow.
Yes, that mother's look I remember well. Very effective!
This is an interesting topic. When I released my latest novel, I was asked which song makes me think of my book. Here's what I came up with: http://westofmars.com/2011/08/04/feat...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otJY2H...
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One More Victim:
http://www.amazon.com/One-More-Victim...