songs fueling my writing lately
I do my best writing when I listen to music. While I've been working on the synopsis, plot planning and character outlines for my WIP, here's what's been inspiring me lately:
- "Don't You Evah" by Spoon: I love this loose, weird, affable rant against people who have the easy life. Or at least that's how I interpret it...
- "Throw It All Away" by Brandi Carlile: Because her sad songs make me way, way sad. Helps me to crawl into my MC's Big Problem.
- "Poison Pushy" by Stanton Moore: The retro loungey song is the soul of the duh-he-loves-you dude that my MC mistreats... and mistreats...
- "Say Hey (I Love You)" by Michael Franti: 'Cause it gets my fingers moving!
- "Another Postcard" by the Barenaked Ladies: It's absurd (a mystery person sending postcards with chimpanzees), and I'm inspired by the absurd in this work. Although I DID take out the rogue genetically engineered rooster that popped in at about midnight one night...(did you just hear my agent and editor shudder with simultaneous relief and fear?)