Category: Soundtracks

  • Late Serendipity

    Had some quiet late tonight, so I’ve been logging extra time on the revisions — and it’s paying off beautifully. I managed to rework and salvage the better part of one scene that I thought earlier today I was going to have to simply delete — I got the direction for the revised scene from…

  • Superman

    I’ve been working with wounded heroes this morning, and scarred villains, and I happened on the song that has to be the theme song for Gods Old and Dark — Superman, by Five for Fighting. If the tag line, “It’s not easy being me,” is trite and unworthy of the song, the rest could come…

  • Darkness

    In Gods Old and Dark more than anything I’ve written before, the story is about the price of heroism, and about who we are and how we hang onto that when we’re faced by darkness from within or without. Today I had a tough scene to write — the one in which Molly faces the…

  • First day of my new work year

    I’m sitting in a word war in chat right now, with flint, JeriT, Nonny, PuristLove, QAchyck, and robertsloan2, plugging away on a scene way late in Gods Old and Dark,and finally believing that I’m going to get to the end of this thing. I have the Good Playlist running — Acoustic #3 — The Goo…

  • Goldberg Variations tonight, and lisahall,

    and Michelle Lewis with “Nowhere and Everywhere,”     and the wonderful Snuffy Walden and “The Stand” soundtrack.         Blue Oyster Cult.             Marvin Gaye. Rossy.             Joni Michell,          Steven Bishop,     Billy Joel in both his rock&roll and classical phases. Ry Cooder. David Hidalgo. Zao. Jim Croce. Barry Manilow. Stevie Nicks. Albert Lee. Dion & The Belmonts, Antonio Vivaldi,…