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Writing essentials: music and caffeine |
The other day, I was discussing listening to music while writing, with my writing buddy (Stuart Lennon - you can check out his blog here...
http://stuartlennon.com/ Don't worry. It opens in a new tab so you won't lose me).
I can get addicted to a particular play list or album when I'm writing and then that music is forever associated with whatever I've been working on. Sometimes it's because the lyrics or the music are very apt; sometimes it's because the music is already associated with a location in the piece I'm writing. For example, when I was writing the Malawian scenes in The Wrong Kind of Clouds, I had Lucius Banda's "Freedom" album on in the background, because on a couple of my trips to Malawi, that was playing
everywhere. Much of the rest of that book is associated with 30 Seconds to Mars' album "This is War" just because that's what I was listening to while I was editing it.