It's almost here!
NaNoWriMo's coming peoples! *hops around* I'm very excited! I'm gonna be starting at midnight, I'm sure.
Last year before NaNaWriMo Jim and I discovered the Miyazaki movie Whisper of the Heart, which is VERY apropos. We were thinking it might be a tradition to watch it before NaNo every year, but we haven't this year. I highly recommend it to other wrimos. It's very inspiring, if also very strange and a little too happy and romantic (which is pretty much the same as saying it's Miyazaki). Actually, it was directed by Yoshifumi Kondo, but the screenplay was Miyazaki. Thank you, imdb. lol
So, this makes me wish to make a list of other good things for NaNoWriMo. Good music is vital, naturally. Of course I think sym metal is great for writing to, but it's not ideal for everything (certain scenes demand a different feel) or everyone. Classic video game music is very good, Castlevania and Final Fantasy and so on. Keiko Matsui is a very good Japanese jazz pianist, I like her stuff. Kow Otani, who composed the music for the anime Haibane-Renmei and the PS2 game Shadow of the Colossus, both excellent soundtracks for writing and excellent stories in themselves. Lord of the Rings music, hell yes. Also, my aniki's musicses are good. Jim's soundclick page. Check that out. I don't have any of his music on Mr. Lippertopper, and it makes me very sad. I need to bother him about that sometime, at least before the next NaNoWriMo! His music is good because it all falls into categories that are good for writing but there's a pretty broad range of stuff. Some ambient, some classical, some oriental sounding stuff, some video-games type music, and a lot of baroque--not literally baroque of course, actual baroque music is nearly impossible to write, but very much in that vein. So yeah, he covers most of the stuff I think is good to writing to. The symphonic metal is Mike's job though, hehe.
Sarah-chan! *points at the linky* Listen to the pretties! Jim loves cellos too! If you do not fall in love with either Fantasia for Cello Ensemble, Opus for Violincello, Homage to Bach, or Shogun's March I will have to disown you be very sad.
10 more minutes! Ack! It's coming! I'm 'unna go boot up my laptop and start starting to get started! *bouncebouncebounce* >.> <.< What? I'm not hyper.
Last year before NaNaWriMo Jim and I discovered the Miyazaki movie Whisper of the Heart, which is VERY apropos. We were thinking it might be a tradition to watch it before NaNo every year, but we haven't this year. I highly recommend it to other wrimos. It's very inspiring, if also very strange and a little too happy and romantic (which is pretty much the same as saying it's Miyazaki). Actually, it was directed by Yoshifumi Kondo, but the screenplay was Miyazaki. Thank you, imdb. lol
So, this makes me wish to make a list of other good things for NaNoWriMo. Good music is vital, naturally. Of course I think sym metal is great for writing to, but it's not ideal for everything (certain scenes demand a different feel) or everyone. Classic video game music is very good, Castlevania and Final Fantasy and so on. Keiko Matsui is a very good Japanese jazz pianist, I like her stuff. Kow Otani, who composed the music for the anime Haibane-Renmei and the PS2 game Shadow of the Colossus, both excellent soundtracks for writing and excellent stories in themselves. Lord of the Rings music, hell yes. Also, my aniki's musicses are good. Jim's soundclick page. Check that out. I don't have any of his music on Mr. Lippertopper, and it makes me very sad. I need to bother him about that sometime, at least before the next NaNoWriMo! His music is good because it all falls into categories that are good for writing but there's a pretty broad range of stuff. Some ambient, some classical, some oriental sounding stuff, some video-games type music, and a lot of baroque--not literally baroque of course, actual baroque music is nearly impossible to write, but very much in that vein. So yeah, he covers most of the stuff I think is good to writing to. The symphonic metal is Mike's job though, hehe.
Sarah-chan! *points at the linky* Listen to the pretties! Jim loves cellos too! If you do not fall in love with either Fantasia for Cello Ensemble, Opus for Violincello, Homage to Bach, or Shogun's March I will have to disown you be very sad.
10 more minutes! Ack! It's coming! I'm 'unna go boot up my laptop and start starting to get started! *bouncebouncebounce* >.> <.< What? I'm not hyper.