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dr_pretentiousIt's hard coming up with a new title for the Drollerie Press blog tour posts every month, so I'll be resorting to B movie genre conventions for a while. You can look forward to such sequels as Son of Blog Tour, Revenge of Blog Tour, Bride of Blog Tour, and I Was a Teenage Blog Tour Post.
This month, we're all writing about music, and one of the great pleasures of the blog tour is seeing how other writers use the same tools and tropes very differently. For me, music conjures character quite literally: If I offer the character some time listening to music s/he likes, the character will sometimes surface in my mind and tell me how to fix the story. (My post will be appearing at Cindy Lynn Speer's A Pen and Fire--more specific link to come as soon as it's up.)
For Joely Sue Burkhart, music is more tied to plot than to character, and she thinks of the movement of the story in terms of melody. You can find out more about her and her books here.
Music is an important part of my creation process. Each story I've written has at least one theme song, often times many. A playlist is especially useful when I'm working on multiple stories at the same time. I simply change up my playlist, and it helps immerse me into the different storyworld. Here are a few examples. If you've read these stories, can you feel the tone and melody in the story?
Survive My Fire: Love Hurts by Incubus and Desert Rose by Sting
The Fire Within: Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
Beautiful Death: Wings of a Butterfly by H.I.M.
The Rose of Shanhasson: Kiss from a Rose by Seal, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad by Meatloaf, (Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams
Underlying the entire Blood & Shadows series (both the Shanhasson trilogy and the Keldari fire novellas) is the major theme song from Enterprise: Where My Heart Will Take Me. I love that song and I can't help but immediately feel a quickening in my heart from Gregar, my Shadowed Blood muse, each time I hear the song.
It's been a long road...but I wouldn't trade a step of it.
This month, we're all writing about music, and one of the great pleasures of the blog tour is seeing how other writers use the same tools and tropes very differently. For me, music conjures character quite literally: If I offer the character some time listening to music s/he likes, the character will sometimes surface in my mind and tell me how to fix the story. (My post will be appearing at Cindy Lynn Speer's A Pen and Fire--more specific link to come as soon as it's up.)
For Joely Sue Burkhart, music is more tied to plot than to character, and she thinks of the movement of the story in terms of melody. You can find out more about her and her books here.
Music is an important part of my creation process. Each story I've written has at least one theme song, often times many. A playlist is especially useful when I'm working on multiple stories at the same time. I simply change up my playlist, and it helps immerse me into the different storyworld. Here are a few examples. If you've read these stories, can you feel the tone and melody in the story?
Survive My Fire: Love Hurts by Incubus and Desert Rose by Sting
The Fire Within: Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
Beautiful Death: Wings of a Butterfly by H.I.M.
The Rose of Shanhasson: Kiss from a Rose by Seal, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad by Meatloaf, (Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams
Underlying the entire Blood & Shadows series (both the Shanhasson trilogy and the Keldari fire novellas) is the major theme song from Enterprise: Where My Heart Will Take Me. I love that song and I can't help but immediately feel a quickening in my heart from Gregar, my Shadowed Blood muse, each time I hear the song.
It's been a long road...but I wouldn't trade a step of it.
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