Happy Friday Everyone! Can you believe it? Thanksgiving is next week. Where has the time gone this year? Today I’m going to share with you another tool that I use to help me write, music. I’ve always loved to listen to music. If you allow yourself to be immersed in it, you can go to different places without leaving your home at all.
For me, in relation to my writing, music helps put me inside of my characters so that I can feel what drives them, what causes fear, hope and so many other emotions. I also use music to help me visualize scenes in the books. For every song in my playlists for my book Rise of the Winged Assassin I could write a paragraph for each explaining how it fits to a scene or a character. I won’t do that here for a couple of reasons. Many of the songs would reveal something about the plot or things to come and I don’t want to ruin the surprises before the book comes out. It would also be a really long post.
Some of the songs have explicit lyrics, so if you are not already familiar with the song content I will mark those with an asterisk. Those songs help me get to the more dangerous emotions of the renai and the struggle she endures. If there is something I can share about them without giving out secrets I will.
There are a couple of songs with links embedded in them by the band Falling in Reverse. These two videos, what can I say? The atmosphere, the honesty and the cinematics. They have explicit lyrics so if you aren’t offended by those things I would invite you to watch them.
You will also notice that the song Demons appears on both Lorelei’s and Airik’s list. I have a previous post title Lorelei and Airik, that if you’ve read it, you will understand why. If you haven’t read it and you don’t mind spoilers click on the link. This hasn’t happened yet, and may not happen exactly like this or honestly at all. I wrote this character short to explore the two characters in a shared situation. Who would have known? These pictures came from my Pinterest board titled Rise of the Winged Assassin. If you want to get a seek peak at how I envision the various characters in the book I invite you to click here
Lorelei- Affects of the Renai and her struggle
*The Game- Disturbed
*Popular Monster- Falling Reverse
*Down with the Sickness- Disturbed
Lorelei Introspective
What I’ve Done- Linkin park
Shadow of the Day- Linkin Park
Believer- Imagine Dragons
Demons- Imagine Dragons
Book Scenes
Overburdened- Disturbed- This song inspired two scenes in the book
Demons- Imagine Dragons
Airik
Demons- Imagine Dragons
Monster- Imagine Dragons
Kazimir– Book 2 Character
*The Drug In Me Is Reimagined– Falling in Reverse
Until Next Time! Write well and Prosper!