Writing to Music

***Tessar*** · 07-16-2003, 11:20 PM

I can only assume I'm not the only one who does it, but who else likes to listen to music while writing?

I know that for 'The Good Spirit's Music' I found one song and listened to it over and over and over as I wrote.

I'm also writing a Star Wars story and I'm listening to music while I do that.

So just how common is it? And do you like to listen to several bits (i.e. maybe a certain favorite cd) or just one song?

frodosgirlfriend · 07-17-2003, 09:52 AM

I have a playlist on my computer that a listen too when ever I'm writing. When I write the story of Serj I listen to a gorilaz song called sound check, Sytem of a down's spiders, perfect circle's thinking of you and sleeping beauty, and staind's Raw. When i write fantasy, I listen to smoother things, like cold play or I listen to classicle.

Tanoliel · 07-17-2003, 02:57 PM

I listen to music a lot while I'm writing...usually because I write in my room, which is the basement, which is quiet and cold and lonely, so music cheers it up.
Mostly I go for...well, actually, everything. Beatles, CSNY, Musicals, oh, and the soundtrack to Chocolat. Anyone else heard that? Very good writing music.

tano

***IronParrot*** · 07-18-2003, 12:47 PM

I listen to whatever's appropriate to what I'm writing. In the case of my (currently on hold) detective story, for example, I put on a lot of '40s swing... it will be especially helpful when I get to the jazz club scene, if I ever make it that far.

galadriel · 08-06-2003, 07:45 PM

Oh, goodie... I'm not the only psycho who listens to "mood music" while writing! Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos when writing angst... Nirvana for "loud", fast-paced scenes.... Music does become a bit distracting when I'm trying to write poetry, though. The rhythm of what I'm writing ends up mimicking the song!

Tanoliel · 08-06-2003, 09:34 PM

I'm in a playwriting class, and I'm working on a short play in Shakespearian-like verse. Only I was writing while listening to music with words and I had to turn it off because I kept getting mixed up....eeegh.

tano

Dreran the Green · 08-06-2003, 09:54 PM

When I'm revising my story (Argh! I hate revising! And I still have so much to do! I'm changing the title to Dreran's Bane!) I play a bunch of music, nothing in particular, I just put something on and what I write tends to flow with the mood of the song. I can only write when listening to music or having a strong emotion about something.

Ulfethenar · 08-07-2003, 10:50 AM

I haven't written very much as of late I am sad to say. But when i do write i tend to listen to metal, that being the main form of music i listen to MOST of the time anyway. I do vary the type of metal i listen to though, generally i find the epic sound and often fantasy based lyrics of power or progressive metal to be great when writting fantasy. I also listen to alot of doom metal when i'm writting poetry which tends often to have a dark slant to it anyway since I mainly seem to engauge in that when I feel depressed.

Valaróma · 08-12-2003, 10:17 AM

I listen to music while writing my really bad poems!
I don't usually listen to music that I really like, just music thats in the right mood and giving my insperation like well, FotR soundtrack I guess!

Willow Oran · 08-17-2003, 02:20 PM

I listen to music a lot when I'm writing. I usually either listen to classical or soundtracks both to movies and old musicals, or whatever else I'm in the mood for. Sometimes it has some odd effects... especially lately when I've been writing fantasy and listening to Irish drinking songs, some rather odd characters popped into the story during that...

Tanoliel · 08-17-2003, 07:00 PM

What, like Ignatius Bob?

Waaa...mood music. The soundtrack to Chocolat (the one with Johnny Depp, not the other movie) is a beautiful set of music....loverly.

Willow Oran · 08-17-2003, 09:21 PM

Worse, his grandmother. Ignatius popped up while designing a drawing of the random non prongish bat character requested by eruviel.

M. Brandsdal · 09-06-2003, 08:16 AM

I'm guessing by the previous post about music and writing, that some of you have a list of favourite tracks, of what ever gener, playing while you write..

I'm looking for some music, titles.. anyone got any tips?

Arat-Falathion · 09-07-2003, 10:53 AM

Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard, Enya, general power orchestral music, film-music, some game-music, etc etc etc...

Just try and look around Martin

***Tessar*** · 10-08-2003, 01:28 PM

Oh wow... I got Enya's 'The Celts' for my birthday... and I am in awe...

That CD is now my #1 cd for drawing to, writing poems to, and doing schoolwork to. Plus I listen to it when I'm trying to fall asleep.

I love that cd... It already has a discolored line around it from all the playing.

***Earniel*** · 10-08-2003, 03:05 PM

Oh that's a great CD! I often put it on when drawing.

Tanoliel · 10-08-2003, 03:10 PM

Enya has good CDs for writing, etc. Loreena McKennitt's music is similarly good for that...

galadriel · 10-10-2003, 01:43 PM

Mellow music is good. I listen to Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Tori Amos... Coldplay... U2... and a lot of classical.

hectorberlioz · 10-10-2003, 05:39 PM

my best writing skills are brought out while listening to music.
I'll listen to mozart especcially. anything classical.

Arat-Falathion · 10-10-2003, 05:48 PM

May I add this incredible peace of music. Created by Matthias Günthert, using the Vienna Symphonic Library (VSL), for a musical called Lord of Ireland

Here is the song (It is a free demo from the VSL page)
Ready to Fight

It is perfect to write music to.

07-17-2003, 09:52 AM	#2
frodosgirlfriend Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: I live in la la land, you know, the place you go during math class Posts: 452	I have a playlist on my computer that a listen too when ever I'm writing. When I write the story of Serj I listen to a gorilaz song called sound check, Sytem of a down's spiders, perfect circle's thinking of you and sleeping beauty, and staind's Raw. When i write fantasy, I listen to smoother things, like cold play or I listen to classicle. __________________ LOOK A WEBSITE!!! LETS CLICK ON IT!!!!!! --------------------------------------------- AND FGF'S MOST GORGEOUS MAN ALIVE AT THE MOMENT'S AWARD GOES TO......... BRANDON BOYD (yes once again) !!!!! WOOOO!!! ---------------------------------------------- Hottness has no count for age.... thats why I'm merrying a forty year old who goes by the name of JOHNNY DEPP!!!! ----------------------------------------------- Fortune cookies tell all, so when i got the cookie telling me to date my love i became a stalker to Johnny Depp, and when i find him my excuse will be "the cookie made me do it" ------------------------------------------------ I'm not stupid, I'm special ------------------------------------------------ "But why is the rum gone?" "Captian, Catian Jack Sparrow" "pa-pa-pa parsnip, parla, --" "Just don't do anything... stupid" "WELL IT BLOODY IS NOW!" ~Captian Jack Sparrow ------------------------------------------------ Read my FP.net story!!!

07-17-2003, 02:57 PM	#3
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	I listen to music a lot while I'm writing...usually because I write in my room, which is the basement, which is quiet and cold and lonely, so music cheers it up. Mostly I go for...well, actually, everything. Beatles, CSNY, Musicals, oh, and the soundtrack to Chocolat. Anyone else heard that? Very good writing music. tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

07-18-2003, 12:47 PM	#4
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	I listen to whatever's appropriate to what I'm writing. In the case of my (currently on hold) detective story, for example, I put on a lot of '40s swing... it will be especially helpful when I get to the jazz club scene, if I ever make it that far. __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

08-06-2003, 07:45 PM	#5
galadriel Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: a castle made of clouds Posts: 459	Oh, goodie... I'm not the only psycho who listens to "mood music" while writing! Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos when writing angst... Nirvana for "loud", fast-paced scenes.... Music does become a bit distracting when I'm trying to write poetry, though. The rhythm of what I'm writing ends up mimicking the song! __________________ Human kind cannot bear very much reality. dreamflower - for all things Lady Galadriel

08-06-2003, 09:34 PM	#6
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	I'm in a playwriting class, and I'm working on a short play in Shakespearian-like verse. Only I was writing while listening to music with words and I had to turn it off because I kept getting mixed up....eeegh. tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

07-16-2003, 11:20 PM	#1
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Writing to Music I can only assume I'm not the only one who does it, but who else likes to listen to music while writing? I know that for 'The Good Spirit's Music' I found one song and listened to it over and over and over as I wrote. I'm also writing a Star Wars story and I'm listening to music while I do that. So just how common is it? And do you like to listen to several bits (i.e. maybe a certain favorite cd) or just one song?

08-06-2003, 09:54 PM	#7
Dreran the Green Lady of Legends Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Missing. Reward if found. Posts: 1,083	When I'm revising my story (Argh! I hate revising! And I still have so much to do! I'm changing the title to Dreran's Bane!) I play a bunch of music, nothing in particular, I just put something on and what I write tends to flow with the mood of the song. I can only write when listening to music or having a strong emotion about something. __________________ The end justifies the means, thought Aziraphale. And the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.* *This is not actually true. The road to Hell is paved with frozen door to door salesmen. On weekends many of the younger demons go ice-skating down it. ~Good Omens

08-07-2003, 10:50 AM	#8
Ulfethenar Sapling Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 7	I haven't written very much as of late I am sad to say. But when i do write i tend to listen to metal, that being the main form of music i listen to MOST of the time anyway. I do vary the type of metal i listen to though, generally i find the epic sound and often fantasy based lyrics of power or progressive metal to be great when writting fantasy. I also listen to alot of doom metal when i'm writting poetry which tends often to have a dark slant to it anyway since I mainly seem to engauge in that when I feel depressed.

08-12-2003, 10:17 AM	#9
Valaróma Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: In a state of confusion Posts: 50	I listen to music while writing my really bad poems! I don't usually listen to music that I really like, just music thats in the right mood and giving my insperation like well, FotR soundtrack I guess!

08-17-2003, 02:20 PM	#10
Willow Oran Deus Ex Machina Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,951	I listen to music a lot when I'm writing. I usually either listen to classical or soundtracks both to movies and old musicals, or whatever else I'm in the mood for. Sometimes it has some odd effects... especially lately when I've been writing fantasy and listening to Irish drinking songs, some rather odd characters popped into the story during that... __________________ "5. Plain Rings with RUNES on the inside. Avoid these like the PLAGUE. -Diana Wynne Jones Tough Guide To FantasyLand ...it's not much of a show if somebody doesn't suffer, and preferably at length. Suffering is beautiful in any case, and so is anguish; but as for loathing, and bitterness... I don't think they belong on the stage at all. - Isabella, I Gelosi

08-17-2003, 07:00 PM	#11
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	What, like Ignatius Bob? Waaa...mood music. The soundtrack to Chocolat (the one with Johnny Depp, not the other movie) is a beautiful set of music....loverly. __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

08-17-2003, 09:21 PM	#12
Willow Oran Deus Ex Machina Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,951	Worse, his grandmother. Ignatius popped up while designing a drawing of the random non prongish bat character requested by eruviel. __________________ "5. Plain Rings with RUNES on the inside. Avoid these like the PLAGUE. -Diana Wynne Jones Tough Guide To FantasyLand ...it's not much of a show if somebody doesn't suffer, and preferably at length. Suffering is beautiful in any case, and so is anguish; but as for loathing, and bitterness... I don't think they belong on the stage at all. - Isabella, I Gelosi

09-06-2003, 08:16 AM	#13
M. Brandsdal Hobbit Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Norway Posts: 22	Need tips: Music for writing.. I'm guessing by the previous post about music and writing, that some of you have a list of favourite tracks, of what ever gener, playing while you write.. I'm looking for some music, titles.. anyone got any tips?

09-07-2003, 10:53 AM	#14
Arat-Falathion A'mael Dalharen Eldarele Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Norway Posts: 707	Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard, Enya, general power orchestral music, film-music, some game-music, etc etc etc... Just try and look around Martin __________________ Atharon, where heroes are born. A constantly evolving forum rpg created by Lief Erikson, Falathion and its players.

10-08-2003, 01:28 PM	#15
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Oh wow... I got Enya's 'The Celts' for my birthday... and I am in awe... That CD is now my #1 cd for drawing to, writing poems to, and doing schoolwork to. Plus I listen to it when I'm trying to fall asleep. I love that cd... It already has a discolored line around it from all the playing.

10-08-2003, 03:05 PM	#16
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Oh that's a great CD! I often put it on when drawing. __________________ We are not things.

10-08-2003, 03:10 PM	#17
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	Enya has good CDs for writing, etc. Loreena McKennitt's music is similarly good for that... __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

10-10-2003, 01:43 PM	#18
galadriel Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: a castle made of clouds Posts: 459	Mellow music is good. I listen to Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Tori Amos... Coldplay... U2... and a lot of classical. __________________ Human kind cannot bear very much reality. dreamflower - for all things Lady Galadriel

10-10-2003, 05:39 PM	#19
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	my best writing skills are brought out while listening to music. I'll listen to mozart especcially. anything classical. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

10-10-2003, 05:48 PM	#20
Arat-Falathion A'mael Dalharen Eldarele Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Norway Posts: 707	May I add this incredible peace of music. Created by Matthias Günthert, using the Vienna Symphonic Library (VSL), for a musical called Lord of Ireland Here is the song (It is a free demo from the VSL page) Ready to Fight It is perfect to write music to. __________________ Atharon, where heroes are born. A constantly evolving forum rpg created by Lief Erikson, Falathion and its players.

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