ONE SONG ON REPEAT
FAVE LINKEY-POO RIGHT THIS SECOND: My friend Brandon called this the Fish Death Star. I think that’s pretty much spot on.
So, when I was in Chicago with the other 2009 debutante writers (see pics below), one person in the audience asked us what we listened to when we wrote. I sort of scuffled my feet back and forth and let other writers answer first. Because my playlist? Is ridiculously simple. I usually listen to one or two songs on repeat for the duration of an entire draft. With DONUT DAYS, it was the Killers “When You Were Young.”
Right now, I’m obsessed with Coldplay’s “Life in Technicolor ii.”
But get this: When the other writers started answering, I realized it’s not just me! Shadowed Summer author Saundra Mitchell confessed she’d listened to a single song almost 200 times during the course of a draft.
Birds of a feather, I guess.
So, what’s your preference? To have a diverse playlist at your disposal, or to pick one or two songs and put them on repeat while you exercise your creative muscles?
One Response to “ONE SONG ON REPEAT”
December 13th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
While writing TMI, I listened to The White Stripes obsessively, especially their Get Behind Me Satan album. For my new book, it’s been a lot of Stevie Wonder and Alicia Keys’s Songs in A Minor.