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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Playlist.
So i saw that Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight Saga, created a playlist of the songs that inpired each book. I found this very interesting due to the fact that I too am inspired by a lot of the music i listen to when it comes to stories. To be honest, whenever i listen to a song, i try to create a music video in my head of the characters from the story, and if there are no characters fit the song genre/message i create some other character in some other universe, and suddenly i have an entirely different story idea, and then i get into trouble because i have another story idea on my shoulders.
(Warning: Long explanation Starting here, Skip to "Note" if you are not interested.)
To give you an example, during the last year i was listening to the band Tool quite a bit, and because of this, a substantial amount of material for my Novel (Which i will here on refer to as FLAF). Around the end of the summer of last year i also started listening to a band called "Porcelain and the Tramps" (Procelain) which through me for a complete and utter loop when it comes to story ideas. FLAF is a steampunk adventure with a lot of spiritual and political views that are almost directly from Tool's surreal lyrics, and when i listened to Porcelain, i'm hit with very strong and empowering chick-rock! I'm not saying that FLAF doesn't have empowering women, but it's a different type of empowering that Porcelain speaks of and that is why it confused me. Therefore i came up with another story idea to fit the music. I create a completely different set of characters, plot elements, villians, and cities. The problem with this was that i now had two completely opposite story ideas.
(Note: Explanation ends Here)
Since this happens with pretty much each style of music i listen to, i get too many ideas going through my head. This is why i decided to create a playlist of the songs that inspire each story, just so if i ever need to get into the zone for writing for one story or another, i am able to!
I'm still working on it now, so hopefully i can finish it and post it so you guys can see what goes through my head!
(Warning: Long explanation Starting here, Skip to "Note" if you are not interested.)
To give you an example, during the last year i was listening to the band Tool quite a bit, and because of this, a substantial amount of material for my Novel (Which i will here on refer to as FLAF). Around the end of the summer of last year i also started listening to a band called "Porcelain and the Tramps" (Procelain) which through me for a complete and utter loop when it comes to story ideas. FLAF is a steampunk adventure with a lot of spiritual and political views that are almost directly from Tool's surreal lyrics, and when i listened to Porcelain, i'm hit with very strong and empowering chick-rock! I'm not saying that FLAF doesn't have empowering women, but it's a different type of empowering that Porcelain speaks of and that is why it confused me. Therefore i came up with another story idea to fit the music. I create a completely different set of characters, plot elements, villians, and cities. The problem with this was that i now had two completely opposite story ideas.
(Note: Explanation ends Here)
Since this happens with pretty much each style of music i listen to, i get too many ideas going through my head. This is why i decided to create a playlist of the songs that inspire each story, just so if i ever need to get into the zone for writing for one story or another, i am able to!
I'm still working on it now, so hopefully i can finish it and post it so you guys can see what goes through my head!
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