The themes of The Wishbone Conspiracy are getting clearer for me, and I did a pretty major rip-apart of the playlist I’m using to stay focused on the novel during my two days a week, and to get myself into that place every time I write. I might have too many songs in the list. For some books, I’ve looped just … Continue reading →
Arrival to Earth from the album Transformers: The Score by Steve Jablonsky I’d recommend every piece on the album, actually. I just got my copy. I sat in the movie (all five times) trying to capture the score in my head, because from the moment I heard it, I thought, “I can write to that.” It had passion, movement, beauty, … Continue reading →
I got a great sunrise this morning. I’m in the middle of words—just about exactly in the middle, in fact, and oddly, am writing about Genna’s first moonrise in reach of the moon in three months. Genna never had an issue with moonrises until she found herself on a moonroad. Now, she’s discovering she has a bit of a problem. … Continue reading →
This proposal needed music; rather I needed to find my way through some of the complexities to the core. Music is good for that. This is the music that I’ll listen to while writing the books, the songtrack for the first story at least, and maybe the other three. Assuming the project sells. Always have to put that in there. … Continue reading →
I want a day off betwen now and June 1st. To get it, I’m going to have to write a shitload of extra words some days. So today I’m going to see if I can channel Sheila, and buy myself a morning to sleep in and an afternoon to do something with watercolors and colored pencils, or maybe break out … Continue reading →
When I haven’t put together a soundtrack for a particular project yet, I have a fallback writing soundtrack I’ve titled Zen Playlist #1. This is it. Content on it shifts a little from time to time, (Wide Open Spaces is gone, the Johnny Cash song is new), but it’s the collection of songs I can write to anytime. Bring Me … Continue reading →
Long book — has taken a long time to shake out my extensive collection to get the following. And it’s a long, long list, so it will be done as a ‘continued on next page’ entry — that way, if you’re interested, you can read the list, and if you’re not, you’re spared a whole bunch of badly formatted music … Continue reading →
You have these memories — of being sixteen, of the music that was playing, of the magic of the music — and at forty-two that sixteen-year-old is still inside, looking out at you in the mirror with increasing dismay, whispering, “You were much, much cooler when you were me.” So you try to find doors to let the sixteen-year-old out … Continue reading →
Needed 2000 words yesterday. Got 600, and that was an uphill struggle. I’ve reread them now, they’re good words, they’re the right words, but I need to get this book done, and not at a pace of 600 words in three hours. (It was more than that, actually. I didn’t get more than a few words done when I came … Continue reading →
There’s a discussion about the music writers listen to while they write. I put together soundtracks that help focus me on the story, but that I think may influence the mood and shape of the books, too. But I thought this might be of interest to readers as well as writers — to have the same soundtrack running in the … Continue reading →
