Good morning world!
So you know I’ve been writing. Writing writing writing. I like writing to music — music that clicks with the story I’m working on.
For NIGHT FALLS DARKLY, I compiled a pretty large playlist of specific songs, the “centerpiece” title being The Cure’s LULLABY, which — curses! — isn’t available for my Myspace page. It’s cool, it’s creepy. It really fits the “chill” bill, and mirrors, in so many ways, the challenges my Amaranthine Reclaimer, Archer, Lord Black, and Miss Elena Whitney face throughout the pages of the book.
But … the NIGHT FALLS DARKLY playlist doesn’t work for SO STILL THE NIGHT. Not at all. So I’m slowly creating one specific to that book, and the challenges Mark, Lord Alexander, and the lovely Mina Limpett, will encounter. Do I have a centerpiece song?
Right now it’s #1 CRUSH by Garbage.
I’m having trouble building my playlist for my WIP, too, but everytime I hear Possum Kingdom by the Toadies, it full-on brings me back to the physical act of writing the ending to my last book. Amazing how closely connected writing and music can be in our creativity.
by L.A. Mitchell April 29th, 2008 at 1:01 pm