Write Every Day: 05 November 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 5 November 02019.

I've been doing a lot of listening to music while composing things. At least, where I can - it's hard to do at work, because work is a place that values each person being able to choose what soundtrack they would like for their lives. At home, there's only so much background noise that the people living here can take before they have to have it quiet as well. Thus, headphones are my friends, especially when I want to sink into composition. Or marathon gaming sessions. Both of these things are possible. Depending on which day it is, only one of them might get done, but they're both always possible.

So, here's my question for you. Are you a music (or background noise) while composing person? If so, what's your go-to material? If not, is there something else that you really would like to have when you sit down to write? Let me know about it in the comments.

Today, in writing, I made significant progress on an assignment, having decided on a general shape of things. I have no idea how far it's going to go, or where it's going to end up, but I've at least got a first scene to work with, and that will be enough to keep things going until we reach the end of a scene. Or a work. Could be either. We'll see what happens, yeah?

Here's the tally so far:

Day One: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Two: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ofmonstrouswords, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, teigh_corvus, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Three: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Four: alexcat, alexseanchai, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, redsixwing, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Five: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Comments

[yasaman]

I go back and forth on needing music while writing. Sometimes the effort of picking the right music to go with the right project takes up too much creative bandwidth that should be going to my WIP, so I don't bother. And sometimes I just prefer silence. But when silence won't do and I really want to be in the distraction-free, focused writing zone, I pick something instrumental, often something that has a looping or droney sort of structure. So Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld (both together and in their solo work), Zoe Keating, Max Richter, Four Tet, Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, Hans Zimmer's movie scores, that kind of thing.

Day 5: worked on editing two sections of the draft for a net of 33 words, and wrote 1,723 words on the WIP. Also got my Yuletide assignment! No writing on that yet, I'll have to do canon review this weekend before I write anything, but I opened up a new Scrivener file and dropped my recip's prompt and letter into it.

[silveradept]

Huzzah for Yuletide prompts. And thank you for the recommendations. I'll have to go check them out when I'm looking for some new music to input into my ears and brain.