Travelling with Music

Over the past few months, I have found I've spent a lot of time on the road. Whether it was in a car, coach or train, I always had music. There are some days where you just can't listen to anything and you need silence, which is understandable, but personally, I hate silence, even right now writing this for my website I have a movie on.

Travelling is the best time to work out what music you really are into. I've realised that my mood change depending on what music I am listening to. If anyone follows my blog then you will realise that I love Disney movies and the music. I spent a whole trip up to Yorkshire from Derby listening to nothing but Disney music, from the classic Lion King, Snow White, and Cinderella, to the new Moana, Zootropolis and Princess and the Frog. Although, on the way back, I had my own music on, which includes Ed Sheeran, a bit of Jace Everette, Nickleback and some 80's including Sweet Child o' Mine, by the great Guns and Roses.

All of this made me realise that music alters out moods and emotions. When I feel a bit lonely or its been too long away from home I put Disney on because it reminds me of being at home. Or 80's music because it reminds me of my mum, or even Nickleback because I listen to it with my dad.

But there are tracks that get me in the mood for working. I have found instrumental music helps my concentrate more than songs with lyrics. Recently I have downloaded epic orchestral music from well know movies, such as The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings and some others. But listening to the beautiful music allows me to tap into all kinds of my emotions. These help me with my writing, it allows me to feel a range of things in a short space of time which helps write emotional scenes in my books. I do this on purpose, I specifically choose music which allows me to be moved emotionally. But sometimes it happens without us knowing.

Have you ever started writing a scene you know the beginning middle and end to, but all of a sudden the scene takes a different angle you previously didn't think of? Sometimes it is due to the music we put on, even in the background we are still influenced by the beat. It's not something to be worried about, I wanted to bring this up to give you an insight into my processes and it might help you as writers to tap into something you might not have noticed before. Or give you something else to try.

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Happy Writing!

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