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thirty days of fanfic, day twenty-five
(list of questions can be found at day one)
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25 – 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 do everything listening to music. So of course I listen to music when I write.
I make playlists for myself, because I often write on the train or at work and need to get back into the mood of the story very quickly. Music is awesome for that. Sometimes it's just a genius playlist off a particular song that has the right sort of mood; sometimes it's a particular artist; sometimes it's a bunch of artists in a particular genre or era. Sometimes the music seems like a non sequitur. The fic I'm writing now is set in the 1920s but seems to want to be written to girl rock of the 1990s.
Of course there are songs that just ARE the fic in such an overwhelming way that when you hear them at other times you think of the story. For example, "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" by Kate Bush is Hermione thinking about Harry in the EWFS sequel. Or "Love Hate Sensation" in my mind is that moment in the Hollywood fic when Jim takes Bones on a motorbike ride up the PCH.
And I've written a lot of fic that had songs baked in, mostly Idol AU's where all those singers are still singers. Songs are referenced—they are diagetic, meaning they are happening in the world the characters are in. They hear songs on the radio, or they're performing songs for each other. The 90s AU, Keep Your Enemies Closer, had about 40 songs in it. The 60s AU, Radio Friendly, had about a dozen, as did the 40s AU A Dream That Could Not Last. It's really fun when you take those singers and put them in other eras to think about what songs they might sing, and how their present-day musical tastes would translate into another time.
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25 – 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 do everything listening to music. So of course I listen to music when I write.
I make playlists for myself, because I often write on the train or at work and need to get back into the mood of the story very quickly. Music is awesome for that. Sometimes it's just a genius playlist off a particular song that has the right sort of mood; sometimes it's a particular artist; sometimes it's a bunch of artists in a particular genre or era. Sometimes the music seems like a non sequitur. The fic I'm writing now is set in the 1920s but seems to want to be written to girl rock of the 1990s.
Of course there are songs that just ARE the fic in such an overwhelming way that when you hear them at other times you think of the story. For example, "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" by Kate Bush is Hermione thinking about Harry in the EWFS sequel. Or "Love Hate Sensation" in my mind is that moment in the Hollywood fic when Jim takes Bones on a motorbike ride up the PCH.
And I've written a lot of fic that had songs baked in, mostly Idol AU's where all those singers are still singers. Songs are referenced—they are diagetic, meaning they are happening in the world the characters are in. They hear songs on the radio, or they're performing songs for each other. The 90s AU, Keep Your Enemies Closer, had about 40 songs in it. The 60s AU, Radio Friendly, had about a dozen, as did the 40s AU A Dream That Could Not Last. It's really fun when you take those singers and put them in other eras to think about what songs they might sing, and how their present-day musical tastes would translate into another time.