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music to chase dreams

Do you write with music playing in the background? If so what kind of music inspires you? Feel free to share a song with us. If you don't why not?

I don’t tend to write while playing music, mostly because it distracts me. I wander off thinking about the words or the melody or the bass line and forget that it’s about the writing in the first place. If I ever do write while listening, it has to be something without words. Classical works. I’ve written to Saints Saens before and Ravel and Beethoven and Chopin and Mozart. Mozart tends to be too regular—I get distracted. I tend not to listen to jazz because it annoys me after I listen for a while.



This song’s short (well, short for writing music, which should last for as long as I need to write) but I enjoy it—the violins and the quickness of it makes my fingers move faster, which is important for a writing piece. I also find it complicated emotionally which means I don’t get too moody as I write.