16 November 2011 @ 05:25 pm
Of Theme Music and Auditory Aids  
Sometimes I wish I was pretentious enough to get away with putting

*credits*

at the appropriate bit of my stories where the first scene would lead into the opening theme. But Im not, so I won't. I hate it when people do that.

I am still playing with the idea to title the chapters after the music cues Im thinking of when I write. (Does anybody else do that? Write, say, an action scene to A Pressing Need to Save the World or a running scene to Corridors and Fire Escape? This is of course assuming everyone has the Who OST in the first place...)

On that note, what DO you write to? (If pop music so applies, don't be shy. I was writing porn to Katy Perry's ET the other day.)

Does music inspire my flist, thats what I want to know. <3

Topic for the day, go! ;B
 
 
Current Mood: curious
Current Music: After the Chase - DW S3 OST
 
 
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i will write in words of fire: [mood] mah plotbunnies they are hidin'[personal profile] biodamped on November 16th, 2011 11:07 pm (UTC)
Credits? People DO that? :/

Clearly I don't write to "A Pressing Need to Save the World", because no, I don't have the Who OST. :3 But I do title my stories after the music that inspired them, if music did indeed inspire them. I played with the idea of chapter titles in FBOFW, but titling chapters is far too much effort when they're only 1-2k words long. But looking over my master list, I'd say a good half of the fic there has song-related or inspired titles.

As for what I write to - generally I don't. I can't concentrate on words with music playing, which is a bad habit I picked up while writing uni stuff. But I do put music on prior to writing (it occurred to me last night that if I actually wanted to write Doctor/Donna, it would be helpful to put on Kings of Leon, because that was basically all I listened to during the time I wrote for Who, and is probably a trigger) and if I'm using a song as the basis for inspiration, I'll have a tab open with its lyrics. They get stuck in my head so easily that I really don't need to hear them playing.

TL;DR. Yes music inspires this part of your flist. ♥
[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com on November 17th, 2011 11:18 am (UTC)
Oh yeah, I've seen it. Mostly on FFnet, which explains that, but all the same. Its a device, and it doesn't add anything to fic unless its crackfic.

Also a bit sad that you dont have the OST. (Outta curiosity, is that because you just havent gotten around to it, or because you dont like the music too much?)

Its funny, I do think song titles/lyrics make great titles, but only two stories on my masterlist are named after songs. My musical inspiration is usually that most of my ideas happen when Im doing chores, and when Im doing chores, my iPod is on, so the idea comes with the music. I wonder if thats inspiration or association?

That said, I also cannot write while music is playing. I might play bits of it to think to and then pause it to type, but I can't actually type to music. My brain goes NOPE.

Kings of Leon... there's some nostalgia. I still think of Dave Tennant when I listen to Sex On Fire and that is all your fault. ;p
i will write in words of fire[personal profile] biodamped on November 17th, 2011 11:44 am (UTC)
Ok, well that makes sense. I rarely read stuff over there for obvious reasons. THANK YOU FOR WROTE THIS, my candied ball of hot love.

(Mainly because I have a million things to download and OST's are not high up my list. I don't listen to them enough, especially emotionally triggery ones)

Good point! Could be either. And yeah, writing while music is on is a no go. Brain says NO MORE WORDS.

Hahaha. Sorry bout that.
[identity profile] time-converges.livejournal.com on November 17th, 2011 01:09 am (UTC)
I usually can't write to music with words (one exception - wrote a story to Leona Lewis once), but Philip Glass is my usual choice for instrumental. The soundtrack to The Hours, in particular. But song lyrics often spur plotbunnies. :)
[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com on November 17th, 2011 11:29 am (UTC)
Neither can I, I end up typing the lyrics, mingled with my original thought-- it's like a wood chipper of prose.

Im not actually that familiar with Philip Glass. I know he worked on Secret Window but Ive not seen it in ages. (Is The Hours good?) I really love Hans Zimmer. I dont think he's written a piece yet that doesn't make me emote, lol.
[identity profile] time-converges.livejournal.com on November 19th, 2011 04:23 am (UTC)
YES, Hans Zimmer, too, I forgot him!

Philip Glass is good though, he has this sort of repetitive style that lets me zone out or something. I've never actually seen the Hours, only listened to the soundtrack though - something I should remedy at some point.
[identity profile] fansquee.livejournal.com on November 17th, 2011 01:41 pm (UTC)
I write to The Whitlams.
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