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.