Meme: 30 Days of Fanfic
Oct. 9th, 2015 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
argentum_ls25 – Music – Do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain "mood" to write your fic? Do you need noise in general? Or do you need it completely quiet?
I don't have the relationship to music that seems to be so prevalent in fandom. It seems to me that music has only been becoming more and more important to fans over the last several years, and I really don't get it.
So, no, I don't listen to music when I write. There are no playlists or fanmixes. I wouldn't say I write in silence, though. I do a lot of writing with the family bustling around me, which means the TV is often on in the background. I write in coffee shops and while attending the kid's sports practices. There's often background noise; it's just rarely music.
Other times, I write after the family goes to bed, when I can finally turn the TV off. The kind of silence that exists in the world from 1-3 am is very conducive to finding words.
I do have a handful of stories with musical influences, though. As previously mentioned, several titles come from "Sticky Jazz" by Shriekback. I've also used "Nemesis" by Shriekback and "Pieces" by Fools Garden for titles. My story "Only the Young" is based on "Dreamline" by Rush and titled from "Only the Young" by Pretty Boy Floyd. The story "From My Heart and From My Hand" takes a lot from "Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo. And "And Hell Follows With Him" includes a reference to "It's the End of the World" by REM. These are all exceptions to the usual approach, though, most of which were done to meet someone else's requests.
(And now you know pretty much the entire song selection on my iPhone.)
I don't have the relationship to music that seems to be so prevalent in fandom. It seems to me that music has only been becoming more and more important to fans over the last several years, and I really don't get it.
So, no, I don't listen to music when I write. There are no playlists or fanmixes. I wouldn't say I write in silence, though. I do a lot of writing with the family bustling around me, which means the TV is often on in the background. I write in coffee shops and while attending the kid's sports practices. There's often background noise; it's just rarely music.
Other times, I write after the family goes to bed, when I can finally turn the TV off. The kind of silence that exists in the world from 1-3 am is very conducive to finding words.
I do have a handful of stories with musical influences, though. As previously mentioned, several titles come from "Sticky Jazz" by Shriekback. I've also used "Nemesis" by Shriekback and "Pieces" by Fools Garden for titles. My story "Only the Young" is based on "Dreamline" by Rush and titled from "Only the Young" by Pretty Boy Floyd. The story "From My Heart and From My Hand" takes a lot from "Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo. And "And Hell Follows With Him" includes a reference to "It's the End of the World" by REM. These are all exceptions to the usual approach, though, most of which were done to meet someone else's requests.
(And now you know pretty much the entire song selection on my iPhone.)
