Date: 2010-06-24 12:53 am (UTC)
It depends on what I'm working on. If I'm writing something historical which is a lot of the time I try and get music from a near to the time period as possible. I use LastFM radio channels as I subscribe. I can usually find useful stuff by searching for a suitable radio station. For instance my epic 16th century AU was boosted by listening to the Renaissance and Baroque tag stations.

Sometimes I'll stick with Handel or Bach as I love the music and I find the music helps me to concentrate. There's something very logical about the harmonic progressions which help me to follow the music and immerses me in court scenes for example.

If I'm working on something and I want to boost my word count quickly, I whack on some heavy metal. That always seems to work for me. Just turn it up and start typing!

Failing that if I'm trying to tap into a certain emotion to write a scene or a climax: sadness, lovelorn, misery, happiness I try to find a song from my library which matches that even if it is anachronistic. A lot of the stuff I listen to is female fronted metal, power metal and symphonic metal so I'm inspired by bands like Epica, Within Temptation, Nightwish Amberian Dawn. I write scandalous, melodramatic emotional stuff so that kind of fits.
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