Write Every Day: Day 16

An early post this time because I have to actually leave the house today. It's very wet and cold so I'm hoping that should reduce the number of plague carriers I have to dodge on the street. (I swear I am going to start carrying a 6-foot pike whenever I have to go anywhere.)

Today's question is about music. I often play background music when I'm working and I've found it makes for a really good mood setter when I'm writing as well. A lot of music has specific memories or feelings associated with it, and when I'm trying to evoke a mood or image in my writing I can help myself create that by using music to evoke the mood. This sometimes results in me playing the same single song over and over again while I struggle with a paragraph but one must suffer for art, right?

Do you play music while you write? Does it help or hinder?


Day 16 Tally:
china_shop, badly_knitted, luzula, sylvanwitch, sanguinity, yasaman, brainwane, firecat, nafs, cornerofmadness, lferion, sakana17, phrenk, silveradept, iberiandoctor, shadaras, ysilme, auroracloud

( previous tallies )

Let me know if I missed your name at any point. And participation is always open, so jump in with a comment any time.