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“What does it mean, for a song to be “good writing music”?”
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“Her writing has appeared in Catapult, Los Angeles Review of Books Publab, Publisher's Weekly, Writer's Digest and more.”
“While working on a gothic ghost story, I’d listen to Kate Bush on repeat.”
“Still, even that isn’t set in stone… there are some writers that don’t mind a singer.”
“And Philip Glass.”
“She teaches fiction at Stony Brook University.”
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“This is what happens to me when I play the obsessive two-note compositions of Dreyblatt or Charlemagne Palestine.”
““I had this era where I listened to Glass’s Amazonia album and the incessant rhythms really helped me reach flow state,” says Ortile.”
“For example, when writing Go Tell It on the Mountain , James Baldwin moved to a remote village in the Swiss Alps, bringing with him one Bessie Smith album that he played incessantly.”
“She listens to all kinds, she told me: “Pop, soundtrack music, folk, rock, metal, alternative, whatever.”
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“For example, when I wrote my first novel The World Gives Way , which had a futuristic multicultural setting, I listened to songs in as many foreign languages as I could.”
“The factor that seems to unite everyone is a sense of repetition—no matter the style, writers will play the same songs over and over again to reach a kind of creative trance.”
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“Their compositions cycled through the same two or three notes repeatedly, creating what’s known as consonant harmony: the phantom tones between notes.”
“When writing, a little melodic madness seems required.”
“For others, it’s simply a matter of practicality.”
“Seek the Traitor’s Son author Veronica Roth is completely agnostic when it comes to her music.”
““I like to listen to repetitive instrumental music,” she says.”
“In the first phase, song choices are entirely to do with mood.”
“Soundtracks often work in a similar way—music that’s been composed with the idea of accompaniment, melodies that are meant to join with a story already can work perfectly when one is in the midst of creating a character or scene.”