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GalleyCat Readers Pick the Best Writing Music of 2008, Part Two
For your listening pleasure, novelist Michael M. Thomas had a simple recommendation: "Strauss waltzes. Makes the fingers glide and the mind sweep." Russ Marshalek from Wordsmiths Books writes: "There's nothing that has been better for writing over the past few weeks than Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak (pictured). Soothing, minimal and incredibly evocative." A Hudson Street Press editor added: "I find that Travis works the best. You can sort of ignore the lyrics, and the music is soothing." Another reader had some enthusiastic advice for the action-oriented writers in the audience: "'The Ecstasy of Gold,' from Metallica's album S&M, a collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony -- this song manages to be both hard-driving and melodic, not an easy thing to accomplish. Great music for writing fight scenes! 'All Systems Red,' from Calexico's Garden Ruin album. I listen to a lot of Calexico, but this song in particular offers a combination of pathos and energy that helps me keep the conflict level high. It sounds like a character stretched to his limits and then pushed over the cliff." Many more music lists after the jump... Journalist David Case had this list: "Here's my top 5, each of which I've listened to dozens of times while writing, and never while not writing, in order to preserve the magic: - Brazilian Girls -- Brazilian Girls (the first, eponymous disc) - great for getting the words rolling. Finally, Roman scholar Angela Nickerson writes: "Since I write primarily about Italy, I tend to have a lot of music that evokes my favorite places in Italy, and I really can't write with words playing, so I listen to a lot of orchestral works and soundtracks. While I was writing my book I listened to the Gladiator and the Pride and Prejudice soundtracks a lot (over and over again, in fact). I also like the soundtrack from the TV show Rome. And here are a few others: Email This Post |
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