NaNoWriMo Soundtrack
You may start out by wondering what NaNoWriMo is... well, it stands for National Novel Writing Month which happens in November, so it started today. Next you may wonder why I'm posting about writing a novel on a music blog. Well, actually I'm not writing a novel, I'm working on my screenplay but that explanation is over at Weirdgrrl's Words so I won't bother repeating it here. But I digress...
Whenever I write I use a soundtrack. Each scene has a song associated with it in my head, so that even when I'm not sitting at my computer or with pen and paper in hand... that song comes on and I'm living in the scene and working out how things should unfold. That way, when I do actually sit down to write, the words just pour out like liquid thoughts and form themselves into a finished scene. So here's part of the soundtrack that I'm using this year:
My soundtrack is 16 songs in total at the moment. If nothing else, I highly recommend listening to the Marilyn Manson version of "Working Class Hero"; it has a much greater impact than the current insipid Green Day version... at least IMHO.
And based on the majority of my song titles, I'll give you three guesses as to the theme of my story... and the first two don't count!
Whenever I write I use a soundtrack. Each scene has a song associated with it in my head, so that even when I'm not sitting at my computer or with pen and paper in hand... that song comes on and I'm living in the scene and working out how things should unfold. That way, when I do actually sit down to write, the words just pour out like liquid thoughts and form themselves into a finished scene. So here's part of the soundtrack that I'm using this year:
My soundtrack is 16 songs in total at the moment. If nothing else, I highly recommend listening to the Marilyn Manson version of "Working Class Hero"; it has a much greater impact than the current insipid Green Day version... at least IMHO.
And based on the majority of my song titles, I'll give you three guesses as to the theme of my story... and the first two don't count!
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