Who plays anything 281 times?
There is a song in my iTunes playlist with, at present, a play count of 281. I noticed it when it hit 249 and my jaw hit the floor - my next highest-played song was a whopping 72. (This is over a fairly recent time-frame - no more than six months but I have a feeling it's likely far less than that.)
At first I couldn't figure out when I would have listened to it that much. Or why! It's a tiny little clip from a video game (LoZ: Twilight Princess, if you care; the music that plays after you defeat a boss and get a heart piece, and Midna is waiting to take you back to wherever), about 1:15 long and simply a short little interlude.
Then I realized that my habit over the last few weeks has been to sit down at my computer, poke around at my music for a while until I find something that supports the mood of my writing but isn't distracting, and ignore it for an hour or so while I produce some thousand+ words.
This little interlude, with its calm melodic line and simple texture, has become the mostly-ignored mantra to the last 12k words of my novel, even though I've only had it for about a week. Repeated 282 - no, 283 - times.
At first I couldn't figure out when I would have listened to it that much. Or why! It's a tiny little clip from a video game (LoZ: Twilight Princess, if you care; the music that plays after you defeat a boss and get a heart piece, and Midna is waiting to take you back to wherever), about 1:15 long and simply a short little interlude.
Then I realized that my habit over the last few weeks has been to sit down at my computer, poke around at my music for a while until I find something that supports the mood of my writing but isn't distracting, and ignore it for an hour or so while I produce some thousand+ words.
This little interlude, with its calm melodic line and simple texture, has become the mostly-ignored mantra to the last 12k words of my novel, even though I've only had it for about a week. Repeated 282 - no, 283 - times.