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What Music Helps You To Write? ![]() A poll to determine the most popular kind of music for awakening your muse ![]() |
Greetings from the House of Mormont! By participating in a Writing.com activity called "Game of Thrones" ![]() ![]() I’m having fun digging through WdC polls looking for good ones, responding and reviewing them. They’re so quick, and I don’t have to remind people of all those tedious formatting points and whatnot. Instead, I can ramble on foolishly about my own thoughts on the subject being polled. As a dedicated, obsessive music lover, I take music far too seriously to play anything in the background when I’m trying to write fiction. As I said in Lilli’s Question of the Day, I need to focus on the world and the characters I’m creating, not get wrapped up in the stories within each song on my playlist. When I was first starting to build my music tastes, I would sit down an evening, pick a song, and simply put it on repeat for an hour or two, just sitting quietly, analyzing, breaking it down, imagining, writing about it, and creating art inspired by it. When I create an art piece directly related to a song, I like to play that particular song while I’m making the artwork so I can tap into the vibe. But that doesn’t work when writing. I get inspired by music, but if I spend too much time soaking in the words of others, it can even be difficult to focus on the words I want to use to create my own “music,” so to speak. I have a naturally noisy, cluttered mind, and absolute peace and quiet helps me sort out my own unique thoughts and imaginings from those I’ve accumulated from the world around me. Music is a highly distracting thing for me, which can be a blessing and a curse. Sometimes I desperately need to be distracted. Other times I need to focus. Thanks for posting this and allowing us the opportunity to share our thoughts on the matter. Take care and keep writing ![]() The views and opinions on this review are mainly the things discovered by the reader and therefore, do not reflect necessarily to the group, activity and/or event being affiliated herein. This is only the opinion and suggestions of the reviewer and it is still up to the author of this piece to consider this review as a corrective action or otherwise. ![]() ![]() "The WDC Angel Army" ![]()
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