Righto folk, what do you listen to when you are writing. What are your musical muses for:
Romance
Fight Scenes
Witty Banter
Death Scenes
etc...
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Re: Muses
When I'm actually writing (like ficcing), I actually can't listen to music. Or much of anything at all as it has a tendency to distract. But when I'm RPing in-game? Hooboy! That's a cause for all sorts of music.
PvP/Fight scenes obviously call for something a little heavy. Disturbed provides great sparks of imagination for me as does Hollywood Undead, Three Days Grace or Hurt.
Witty Banter is typically something a little more folksy. Jimmy Buffett (who I know is Marty's favorite artist of all time) does wonders here. So does Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Billy Joel.
Romance? That can honestly be anything for me. Jack Johnson has been the artist du jour for me of late, but I can also take songs by Bob Marley, Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin or Gordon Lightfoot. It all depends on the song and how it inspires me.
PvP/Fight scenes obviously call for something a little heavy. Disturbed provides great sparks of imagination for me as does Hollywood Undead, Three Days Grace or Hurt.
Witty Banter is typically something a little more folksy. Jimmy Buffett (who I know is Marty's favorite artist of all time) does wonders here. So does Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Billy Joel.
Romance? That can honestly be anything for me. Jack Johnson has been the artist du jour for me of late, but I can also take songs by Bob Marley, Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin or Gordon Lightfoot. It all depends on the song and how it inspires me.
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Re: Muses
I have WoW music and I just have music. I don't have anything specific that I play, because the only reason I run music in the background is as something that distracts me.
As odd as it sounds, I write and focus better when there is a lot of other things going on. Anyone that has talked to me on vent (or seen my gtalk at night) knows that I constantly have music playing. I always have music or hulu playing at work too. I'm just one of the those people that finds more stimuli relaxing.
As odd as it sounds, I write and focus better when there is a lot of other things going on. Anyone that has talked to me on vent (or seen my gtalk at night) knows that I constantly have music playing. I always have music or hulu playing at work too. I'm just one of the those people that finds more stimuli relaxing.
Re: Muses
I don't do a ton of writing, but I do a fair bit of drawing ('course) and planning for regular tabletop RPG games that I run now and then.
In both cases, I'm either watching miscellaneous cartoons, or listening to music that is about 7-parts video game/movie music to 3-parts "regular" music, and the "regular" music tends to be either epic power metal (Rhapsody of Fire), trippy nonsense (Yes), and weird non-genre-belonging-to-silliness (Gorillaz).
I dunno if that's weird, or what. I just know I'm usually trying to capture something that has to do with "adventure".
When I'm trying to capture something specifically WoW related, believe it or no, I often listen to actual music from Warcraft games. >_> Though I know most seem to consider it only "ambiance" or just play with it turned off, I think it deserves a bit more credit.
Example.
Another example.
And another.
Yet another.
The examples go on.
Seriously!
And bringing us home.
In both cases, I'm either watching miscellaneous cartoons, or listening to music that is about 7-parts video game/movie music to 3-parts "regular" music, and the "regular" music tends to be either epic power metal (Rhapsody of Fire), trippy nonsense (Yes), and weird non-genre-belonging-to-silliness (Gorillaz).
I dunno if that's weird, or what. I just know I'm usually trying to capture something that has to do with "adventure".
When I'm trying to capture something specifically WoW related, believe it or no, I often listen to actual music from Warcraft games. >_> Though I know most seem to consider it only "ambiance" or just play with it turned off, I think it deserves a bit more credit.
Example.
Another example.
And another.
Yet another.
The examples go on.
Seriously!
And bringing us home.
Re: Muses
Now hang me by this golden noose
'Cause I never been nothin' but your golden goose
Silver tongue don't fail me now
And I'll make my way back to you somehow
'Cause I never been nothin' but your golden goose
Silver tongue don't fail me now
And I'll make my way back to you somehow
Re: Muses
Okay I'm adding some show clips in here, too. Obviously space breaks imply different links, AMIRITE?
Rooooo- oooooo - ooooo - *Deep Breath* - maaaaannnn - ccccce.
Fight Scenes
Witty Banter Lols!
Others:
Angry Banter
Mourning And Grief
Happy Stuff (The Lily Allen song, incidentally, being written about the actor playing Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones)
Craziness!
Rooooo- oooooo - ooooo - *Deep Breath* - maaaaannnn - ccccce.
Fight Scenes
Witty Banter Lols!
Others:
Angry Banter
Mourning And Grief
Happy Stuff (The Lily Allen song, incidentally, being written about the actor playing Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones)
Craziness!
So if you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy and some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse or I'll lay your soul to waste.
Re: Muses
I'm all man and all machine, a little sicko, little mean
I rock your brains out and you're sure to be damned
I lick your little finger then chew up your hand
for that's who I am: The Biomechanic man.
I rock your brains out and you're sure to be damned
I lick your little finger then chew up your hand
for that's who I am: The Biomechanic man.