Wednesday 3 July 2013

The Artist Unleashed: WRITING TO MUSIC, by Eliza Green

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3 comments:

  1. Yes I do! Lyrics and all. I find hard and progressive rock really great for action scenes.

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  2. I listen to music whenever I'm writing - all the time. And lyrics don't tend to distract me. They probably creep subliminally into my writing, but I haven't ever noticed it happening. Maybe it's too subliminal for me to notice. :) But I tend to tune out the music, and an hour will have passed and I'll go, "Hey, what have I been listening to?" even though I'm singing along to the music a lot of the time.

    I did all my uni studies listening to music as well. Couldn't concentrate without it!

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  3. Alex, the heavier stuff works for me re action, too. It works so well in movies, why not as part of the writing process?

    Trisha, it's a really great escape mechanism. I think introspective writers need the peace and quiet much more than the avid 'talkers'.

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