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Post by lieden on Sept 16, 2010 18:01:51 GMT 1
Are you among those people who prefer to write with music playing in the background? Do you absolutely need music in order to put you in the right mood? Or is it irrelevant to you? Do certain stories have specific 'soundtracks'? I thought to ask since I've noticed that, while not necessary, a lot of the time music puts me into the right pacing in order to write (or continue writing) a story. And it seems that my stories do have soundtracks. For Mass Effect ficcage, I listen to Bitcrush, Gridlock (the Formless album), Faunts, Map of the Problematique by Muse, and bits from the Ergo Proxy OST. Usually anything with lyrics is disruptive (MotP is an exception, for some reason). What about you?
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Post by Clint Johnston on Sept 16, 2010 19:16:18 GMT 1
Not really. If anything, I'll put my itunes on shuffle while I'm transcribing the convos from the game. When I'm editing and adding quips, I need silence.
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Post by Battlechantress on Sept 16, 2010 19:57:41 GMT 1
"Lies" and "Doubt" pretty much have their own soundtracks (I'd supply the list, but it's not very short. I figured I'd post it when I at least get more of "Lies" put up). "Bad Night" and my other fics don't have soundtracks per se. Early Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Tree and even Slayer have been known to be used for more "darker" scenes. The rest of my music collection ends up on shuffle most of the time.
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Post by Knightfall on Sept 16, 2010 21:11:50 GMT 1
I used to exclusively listen to The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance, and (takes breath) Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV - Volume I: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness by Coheed and Cambria. Recently I've been tracking down music without lyrics, because for some reason lyrics distract me now. It's weird. Got a lot of Celtic music in queue, and that's always great. =D
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Post by lieden on Sept 16, 2010 21:19:19 GMT 1
Interesting! Sometimes I prefer silence when editing, too, and need to concentrate better. But on other occasions a tense music background (such as Gridlock) is energising, which also helps me concentrate, albeit in a different manner. Slayer! And now you reminded me days of my youth. And embarrassing stories... XD Knightfall: you can write science fiction with Celtic music playing? (By the way, all the stuff I mentioned -- with the exception of the Muse song, is without lyrics, and I would highly recommend them regardless of context).
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Post by Knightfall on Sept 16, 2010 22:21:22 GMT 1
I guess it kinda does depend. Just realized that I haven't been paying attention to what I listen to. xD
I've been listening to these auto-tuned songs a lot lately. They really helped me with my science fiction writings. They sound really funny initially, but they got stuck in my head after a while.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Sept 16, 2010 22:54:53 GMT 1
You know what? I am deeply ashamed that I first heard of Sagan through a FFUU comic. The more I learn about him (especially what he believed about God) the more he impresses me.
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Post by Knightfall on Sept 17, 2010 0:41:58 GMT 1
When that last song came out a few months ago was the first time I ever really went out of my way to figure out who he was. I watched Contact years and years ago, but I had just thought it was an alien movie without aliens. Watching it now, the whole concept really is brilliant: how he made it his mission to balance science with faith with speculative romanticism. He really was a poet at heart.
I really need to give his stuff a more serious read. I've read exactly one chapter of Cosmos and Contact, but I'm really fond of the guy at the moment.
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 18, 2010 23:29:40 GMT 1
I never have a 'soundtrack' to my writing - I think a piece of writing should stand alone. The words shouldn't need accompaniment.
But I do sometimes listen to music while writing! Not often, and mainly with fanfic for some reason. Basically, with fanfic I will often listen to the theme music for the fandom. On one of my longer Mass Effect fics, I had the Faunts theme playing over and over for a month. On my recent Star Wars story, I had a medley of John Williams tunes from the films.
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Also I agree with Lieden - there is something very cheering and wonderful about the thought of Knight writing science fiction to the sounds of Celtic rock.
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Post by lieden on Sept 19, 2010 7:13:51 GMT 1
My bad phrasing. By 'soundtrack' I meant having a consistent set of tracks you like to listen when writing a story. But there are people who , uh, strongly encourage you to listen to the tracks they like or wrote the story to. I'm not fond of that, because I think it just doesn't work well.
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Post by wgreen on Jun 30, 2012 5:14:30 GMT 1
Yeah, i can't focus on my writing if there isn't something in the background playing. For me it's mostly just classic rock. When i need something new i'll splash in some dubstep or techno.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jun 30, 2012 11:19:23 GMT 1
I wrote one Elder Scrolls: Oblivion story based around a Savage Garden song; just a short story. And I am currently working on another Elder Scrolls: Oblivion story based on / inspired by two Dream Theater songs (which is really one song broken into two parts and played seperately on their album). Listening to the song(s) will not necessarily be required when reading the story once it is finished, as the storyline was merely inspired by the songs...
As for listening to music while I write, sometimes it works and sometimes not so much... depending on the music and my mood at the time.
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Post by spiritwolf71 on Sept 15, 2012 18:38:49 GMT 1
I always play music when I write. I have like 400 tracks of what I call production music, stuff from soundtracks, trailers or stuff that want to be in sound track and trailers. Two Steps from Hell, Position Music KPM, Kerryn Muzzey, Immediate MusicWest One, X-ray dog and so many more.
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Post by Mister Buch on Sept 15, 2012 23:04:05 GMT 1
When I write my fantasy story I constantly listen to epic-sounding fantasy music. It really helps even if I'm writing something completely non-epic.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Jan 7, 2013 12:58:03 GMT 1
Normally I write or draw things while listening to music that are appropriate to the mood of the scene, but once in a while I've tend to humour myself by listening to music that is... a bit unfitting to the scene I'm writing for.
Such as tonight, due to having an artist block while nailing down the thumbnails to my fan comic, I've decided to tune into Tobuscus' Literal Trailer to the AC: Brotherhood, just to shake off the block and keep the flow going. That said scenes were somber and romantic at the same time.
Totally appropriate...
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