Anyone ever write when listening to music and get way too invested the music?

[InkyFingers]

Background music when writing. We've all have probably tried it. But have you ever found yourself too invested in the music?

You're writing along, and before you know it you are typing in time to the melody? Then the music starts to pick up and your fingers can't keep pace. But d&#$ it! You're going to try! It's a race now! So you keep going, making a few mistakes but you're tapping along.

Then the song ends... And you just have a mess of the dreaded red scribbly lines under 60% of your work....

 

[Deleted member 57675]

Yes.

 

[Lloyd]

No

 

[Maze_Runner]

Yes

 

[RepresentingSilence]

No

 

[EliseValkyria]

No

 

[PancakesWitch]

Yeah, sometimes I even cry when I write something too emotional or touching

 

[Deleted member 58005]

I find that it depends on what music I'm listening to

 

[BlackKnightX]

Background music when writing. We've all have probably tried it. But have you ever found yourself too invested in the music?

You're writing along, and before you know it you are typing in time to the melody? Then the music starts to pick up and your fingers can't keep pace. But d&#$ it! You're going to try! It's a race now! So you keep going, making a few mistakes but you're tapping along.

Then the song ends... And you just have a mess of the dreaded red scribbly lines under 60% of your work....

It’s good when dreaming up a story, but totally distracting in the writing process.

 

[XKARNATION]

The worst is that the music I'm listening to influences my writing.

 

[K_Jira]

Yes.

But more often, I got hooked by the music, can't help but want to sing, and the story got blanked out from my head.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

No. I write in a paper notebook first, so I don't get the dreaded red scribbly lines in my first draft.

 

[CL]

I've been told that having music playing while writing can be supportive of the mood you want to be in, but it can also act as a distraction.

 

[Topgun1908]

I once listened to this song to hype myself up when writing a fight scene but I got too hyped up and made the fight scene last way longer than I wanted to so I rewrote most of the chapter.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Happens sometimes. Mostly with lyrical metal or medieval rock, tho

 

[ScarletWeeb]

Background music when writing. We've all have probably tried it. But have you ever found yourself too invested in the music?

You're writing along, and before you know it you are typing in time to the melody? Then the music starts to pick up and your fingers can't keep pace. But d&#$ it! You're going to try! It's a race now! So you keep going, making a few mistakes but you're tapping along.

Then the song ends... And you just have a mess of the dreaded red scribbly lines under 60% of your work....

Never.

When I write fighting scenes, I listen to motivational songs or rage raps, from artists like Royal Deluxe or The Score, sometimes Eminem and other rappers also

When I write Romantic/Smut scene, I listen to Henta- Well nvm

When I write Dramatic, or other scenes, I listen to normal songs, If it's a scene where the mc says or does something savage, I listen to doja cat, if the mc gives a cool info, or has a cool moment its The weeknd, and so on

When I write Romantic/Smut scene, I actually listen to edm, it just makes me feel calm.

Everyone has different tastes, and different connection with music. So, it completely depends the person.

 

[AliceShiki]

I don't listen to anything while writing. It's way too distracting.

It's important to know what works for you and what doesn't. Songs easily pull my attention (You get used to having your attention pulled easily when you have ADHD), so I only listen to songs if I'm doing something that doesn't need focus.

 

[Gryphon]

Heres the thing, good music can really elevate a scene. It's even more impactful on the author cause they can visualize the scene in their heads like a movie, and combine that with some nice fitting music, it can make me feel emotional at times.

I legit cried when writing one of my scenes because the music I was listening to fit so well with what I was writing. Combine the fact my emotions have a certain tendency to bounce around like a bullet being fired in an enclosed metal box, then I legitimately felt emotional as hell. It's not that the music is all I can hear, it just adds to the whole.

 

[AliceShiki]

Heres the thing, good music can really elevate a scene. It's even more impactful on the author cause they can visualize the scene in their heads like a movie, and combine that with some nice fitting music, it can make me feel emotional at times.

I legit cried when writing one of my scenes because the music I was listening to fit so well with what I was writing. Combine the fact my emotions have a certain tendency to bounce around like a bullet being fired in an enclosed metal box, then I legitimately felt emotional as hell. It's not that the music is all I can hear, it just adds to the whole.

I don't think one needs music to visualize the scene in their head?

I definitely cried more than a few times while making a story, because I'm like... Kinda experiencing it as the characters while I make it? I actually can't write in any way other than entering the character's heads and experiencing the story as them... And well, I happen to make my characters suffer often... >.>

So I dunno, I mean... It's good that music helps you do that, I guess? I just find it weird that you seemed to be writing it as a rule of sorts, instead of it being just your own personal experience with music while writing.

 

[Katsuya]

Yeah, all the time. especially when I'm not in the mood/groove