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Listening to Pink Floyd's The Wall tonight while I get some late night writing done. Haven't listened to this album in ages. I remember hearing it for the first time as a kid when a neighbor's dad had it on tape, and it blew me away. And now I finally have it on cd.
One interesting thing about writing when there's music going is that it's a lot like a reeeaally good soundtrack (I'm not talking John Williams scores here, more like, say, the movie Dazed and Confused ) where every song fits the scene perfectly. And being that I only average about 1000 words in an hour or so (and believe me, that's low compared to other writers I know), a whole album can be listened to--sometimes twice--during the writing of one particular scene. I remember writing one scene while listening to The Cars' first album at least three times.
Another interesting thing about writing with music is how it influences what I'm writing. For instance, this album in particular would incite me to write dark and brooding and psychologically creepy scenes.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
head58 would know about this, when I handed him a copy of my first completed story (herein known as "The Infamous War Novel"). It was chock full of this sort of stuff. Thing is, it was written back in high school when I was far from perfecting my craft. A lot of the scenes were short and heavily influenced by music--so much so that the chapter titles themselves were song titles, and the chapters themselves a sort or literary take on that song. Another for instance: Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" brought to mind a battle that took place in the black of night in the middle of a forest, even though I would later realize the song is about riding in a desert in the heat of day. It wasn't the literal meaning I was striving for; it was the mood that the song set that inspired the scene. The entirety of The Infamous War Novel was written that way.
I've since dropped that habit, though to this day I still listen to music when writing. A quiet room just doesn't do it for me, as I'd get distracted too easily by something else.
On a side note, however, I would later finally see the movie The Wall, and was pleasantly surprised to see how literal the movie is in its following the album. I believe that's why I go against every other critic by saying I actually enjoy that movie; it's not a very action-based, script-based movie, as much as it is a literal interpretation of the emotions expressed on the album. Sure, I could be talking out of my ass by saying that, but I'm stickin' to it.
And on that note, I'm off to do some more writing.
Listening to Pink Floyd's The Wall tonight while I get some late night writing done. Haven't listened to this album in ages. I remember hearing it for the first time as a kid when a neighbor's dad had it on tape, and it blew me away. And now I finally have it on cd.
One interesting thing about writing when there's music going is that it's a lot like a reeeaally good soundtrack (I'm not talking John Williams scores here, more like, say, the movie Dazed and Confused ) where every song fits the scene perfectly. And being that I only average about 1000 words in an hour or so (and believe me, that's low compared to other writers I know), a whole album can be listened to--sometimes twice--during the writing of one particular scene. I remember writing one scene while listening to The Cars' first album at least three times.
Another interesting thing about writing with music is how it influences what I'm writing. For instance, this album in particular would incite me to write dark and brooding and psychologically creepy scenes.
head58 would know about this, when I handed him a copy of my first completed story (herein known as "The Infamous War Novel"). It was chock full of this sort of stuff. Thing is, it was written back in high school when I was far from perfecting my craft. A lot of the scenes were short and heavily influenced by music--so much so that the chapter titles themselves were song titles, and the chapters themselves a sort or literary take on that song. Another for instance: Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" brought to mind a battle that took place in the black of night in the middle of a forest, even though I would later realize the song is about riding in a desert in the heat of day. It wasn't the literal meaning I was striving for; it was the mood that the song set that inspired the scene. The entirety of The Infamous War Novel was written that way.I've since dropped that habit, though to this day I still listen to music when writing. A quiet room just doesn't do it for me, as I'd get distracted too easily by something else.
On a side note, however, I would later finally see the movie The Wall, and was pleasantly surprised to see how literal the movie is in its following the album. I believe that's why I go against every other critic by saying I actually enjoy that movie; it's not a very action-based, script-based movie, as much as it is a literal interpretation of the emotions expressed on the album. Sure, I could be talking out of my ass by saying that, but I'm stickin' to it.
And on that note, I'm off to do some more writing.
