Music,
I think, is an important pillar of the creative mind. And as an author, it’s an
equally important part of any book. It doesn’t matter what the writing is
about, and it doesn’t matter what the story is; writing is music. Our words
have rhythms and cadence, our sentences make melodic lines. There are fast
sections, slow sections, loud paragraphs, quiet paragraphs. Good writing, for
me, lights up my brain much like good music does.
This
relationship, of course, goes both ways. If writing informs music, then it
stands to reason that music must also inform writing. Certainly, I’ve found
this in my own experience. With my first book, SWIPE, I wrote almost everything
either in the dark, or on the run, in the motion of electrobuses and boxcars,
with my hood up and my oversized headphones on. For some of that time, indeed,
my focus demanded quiet. But for much of my writing and drafting and thinking,
I was immersed in a blanket of music. Loud music. And I found that its genre
dictated the writing’s tone. With SWIPE, my musical selections often gravitated
toward electroclash, a genre I didn’t even know existed until I found myself
craving it for the underscore of SWIPE’s scenes. Often, I’d play the music so
loud that I needed to stuff my ears with tissue paper, because I liked the feel
of the heavy beats hitting my brain, pushing me forward, relentless,
unforgiving…. The gritty, electronic timbre of the music just seemed to belong
with the tech-filled but flawed world of the American Union, and the energy
conveyed by that music–both in the faster and in the more somber
selections–captured for me the sense of foreboding, anxiety, excitement and,
ultimately, determination that Logan feels over the course of his journey.
Source: shannondarrough.com via Tahnee on Pinterest
The
third book in the Swipe Series has yet another soundtrack altogether. I can’t
wait for you to hear it, and to discover all that its soundscape implies. But
that is a story for another day, and that is a playlist for another time….
So if
you’ll excuse me, I have some headphones I need to find…
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You can find Evan Angler @ www.evanangler.com
Read my review of SWIPE (Book #1 in the Swipe Series) HERE
And stay tuned in for my review of SNEAK when it goes live on ORB tmrw!
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