The Soundtrack of Your Fic
Yesterday Version 2.0 by Garbage gave me an inspiration for an X-Files story that I polished off my typing for in two hours. It made me think of other albums that I associate with fic-writing time periods, pairings, or certain stories.
My earliest X-Files stories were written in my brother's apartment on his computer, so they're all informed by the music he listened to at the time, namely Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, OK Computer by Radiohead, and Ultra by Depeche Mode. Months later I got a CD Walkman and added Darkest Days by Stabbing Westward and Version 2.0 by Garbage to the mix. I can't hear Darkest Days without thinking of my To Have, To Own, To Hold series, and Version 2.0 is a great Mulder/Krycek album, throbbing with obsession, insanity, and lust. (Sisters of Mercy and Concrete Blonde contributed a lot just by being perfect for an XF world, but I have so many memories with those bands before and aside from my fic-writing that they don't quite count the same way.) The Saint soundtrack is my Hoping to Fall Into Grace album, while The Matrix soundtrack was a big influence on the Not in Our Stars series.
Visual Audio Sensory Theater by VAST
While "Pretty When You Cry" and "Temptation" just about beg to be made into Mulder/Krycek stories, I was estranged from The X-Files at this point, so this became my Doyle episodes Angel album, particularly "Touched," "Three Doors," and "The Nile's Edge."
Days of the New's yellow album was a major component in my writing process for "Breaking," my due South death story. Now it also reminds me of "Raveling," since I first saw the Barretts perform in my head while listening to this and to Days of the New's red album. "Raveling" also tinges Nine Inch Nails' And All That Could Have Been and Still for me.
The Three Calamities by Switchblade Symphony and Wrecked by Pig
"Nevermore"
I needed insanity and obsession. These two helped provide them. I can't explain the role of Dido's No Angel in this quite so easily. Maybe it's the sad, vaguely Celtic thing. You're going to take my union card away now, aren't you? ::grins::
Haunted by Poe
"Nevermore"
the Median series
When your stories are about change, mourning, and struggling to deal with it all, you can't go wrong with Haunted.
Perversion by Gravity Kills
"Negotiation"
Industrial music often helps me write sex scenes, and in this case the feel of the music helped give me the grungy, rusted gray atmosphere of the Eureka Maru.
My earliest X-Files stories were written in my brother's apartment on his computer, so they're all informed by the music he listened to at the time, namely Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, OK Computer by Radiohead, and Ultra by Depeche Mode. Months later I got a CD Walkman and added Darkest Days by Stabbing Westward and Version 2.0 by Garbage to the mix. I can't hear Darkest Days without thinking of my To Have, To Own, To Hold series, and Version 2.0 is a great Mulder/Krycek album, throbbing with obsession, insanity, and lust. (Sisters of Mercy and Concrete Blonde contributed a lot just by being perfect for an XF world, but I have so many memories with those bands before and aside from my fic-writing that they don't quite count the same way.) The Saint soundtrack is my Hoping to Fall Into Grace album, while The Matrix soundtrack was a big influence on the Not in Our Stars series.
Visual Audio Sensory Theater by VAST
While "Pretty When You Cry" and "Temptation" just about beg to be made into Mulder/Krycek stories, I was estranged from The X-Files at this point, so this became my Doyle episodes Angel album, particularly "Touched," "Three Doors," and "The Nile's Edge."
Days of the New's yellow album was a major component in my writing process for "Breaking," my due South death story. Now it also reminds me of "Raveling," since I first saw the Barretts perform in my head while listening to this and to Days of the New's red album. "Raveling" also tinges Nine Inch Nails' And All That Could Have Been and Still for me.
The Three Calamities by Switchblade Symphony and Wrecked by Pig
"Nevermore"
I needed insanity and obsession. These two helped provide them. I can't explain the role of Dido's No Angel in this quite so easily. Maybe it's the sad, vaguely Celtic thing. You're going to take my union card away now, aren't you? ::grins::
Haunted by Poe
"Nevermore"
the Median series
When your stories are about change, mourning, and struggling to deal with it all, you can't go wrong with Haunted.
Perversion by Gravity Kills
"Negotiation"
Industrial music often helps me write sex scenes, and in this case the feel of the music helped give me the grungy, rusted gray atmosphere of the Eureka Maru.