Do you listen to music when writing?

[LitSam]

Guess I'm in the minority. I can't concentrate without silence. Even lyricless music is too distracting.

 

[Ral_062]

hell yeah i do, but sometimes its a distraction so particularly lock in before listening to music.


MUSIC IS MY POwwer!

 

[Dawnathon]

I can't write any scene while listening to music that "matches" the scene. Even if the most exciting, heart-pumping action is going on, it takes a lot more careful consideration to write than it would for the characters to act. It can take over an hour between writing an editing. I prefer background noise styles of music if it's covering up something IRL, but preferably I'll listen to nothing at all.

 

[Elmir_Arch-Ham_of_Omega]

Sometimes it lets me write whole chunks of a chapter. I'll hold off on the list unless there's a demand for it.

 

[blushiemagic]

Usually I don’t put on any music. However, there is always random music constantly playing in my head, nonstop, all the time, if that counts.

 

[cranappleberri]

Listening to music helps me a lot! It's inspiring and magically helps my creativity flowing. If you ever have writer's block, I highly recommend listening to music and try free writing, see if that helps you at all.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

I've been listening to a lot from these guys while writing. SynthWave stuff

 

[DismaiNaim]

Alexis Ffrench

 

[Elmir_Arch-Ham_of_Omega]

Diavolo's theme (Epic Version) carried my writing of the a chapter rewrite today, even though it had nothing to do with split personalities. More of a character shedding their facade.

 

[TinaMigarlo]

Does music help in writing? Like listening to something epic when writing a fight scene or something soothing or upbeat when writing a romantic scene? Or just music in general... i personally like listening to lofi when i sit down to write.

i'll go you one better,
though in general I don't listen to music when writing or reading/editing.

I used to compose. I was working on a demo CD. Now, any track I start to work with and see if I can do anything with it, I get some mental image from it. Once the image hits, that's it... its stuck. The image I was getting from this one track, made me want to start writing about it. i started imagining the bigger story around that image, and... that led to the other tracks on the demo CD.

when I was done though. I put that CD on "repeat" as i was writing. After hundreds of times hearing it working on it, and no lyrics... it just kind of goes into the background and I barely noticed it playing over and over for hours.

what. no one else has their own soundtrack to their novel? lol
i know, I'm weird.
but instead of the soundtrack being inspired by the novel... the entire novel exists, because the soundtrack came first.

 

[Ai-chan]

Ai-chan listens to Foreground Eclipse. Used to listen to Shibayan as well, but Foreground Eclipse is always the best to raise Ai-chan's heartbeat and activate the brain without overstimulating. It's like writing while drumming and screaming.

It's too bad they broke up. Merami's voice is too awesome, activating Ai-chan's brain cells. Teto's drumming was on point, raising Ai-chan's heartbeat. Suzuori's guitar was nice too, providing the ground for both vocal and drum harmoniously. They all work so well together, why separate?

It must be Merami falling for Teto but Suzuori had feelings for her. Unfortunately Teto also has feelings for Suzuori. Faced with such a love triangle, they had no choice but to declare war of annihilation on each other's love rival... or separate.

 

[Emotica]

Sometimes, but not purposely. Sometimes I listen to music, sometimes I have a nature documentary on in the background. If I'm writing something with a specific tone, I usually choose silence.