Comments on: Your Favorite Author and Her Favorite Songs http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/09/14/your-favorite-authors-and-her-favorite-song/ Book Reviews, Philosophy, Academic Life Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:53:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jessica http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/09/14/your-favorite-authors-and-her-favorite-song/#comment-171 Jessica Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:53:23 +0000 http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/?p=907#comment-171 Kristie -- I love the idea of listening to music while reading. Unfortunately, DH had Warren Zevon on last night while my reading of Gaffney was competing with his Sharpe's Rifles fiction. I lost! Kristie — I love the idea of listening to music while reading. Unfortunately, DH had Warren Zevon on last night while my reading of Gaffney was competing with his Sharpe’s Rifles fiction. I lost!

]]> By: MoJo http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/09/14/your-favorite-authors-and-her-favorite-song/#comment-169 MoJo Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:35:50 +0000 http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/?p=907#comment-169 <blockquote>Madonna’s Deeper and Deeper is one of my favorite dance songs evah! It helped that she came out with that song at the same time I was getting into French psychoanalytic feminist theory.</blockquote> Hey, you made me spew milk all over my keyboard. I adore Madonna and for all the wrong reasons. Even when she does stupid stuff I love her.

Madonna’s Deeper and Deeper is one of my favorite dance songs evah! It helped that she came out with that song at the same time I was getting into French psychoanalytic feminist theory.

Hey, you made me spew milk all over my keyboard.

I adore Madonna and for all the wrong reasons. Even when she does stupid stuff I love her.

]]> By: Kristie(J) http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/09/14/your-favorite-authors-and-her-favorite-song/#comment-170 Kristie(J) Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:59:58 +0000 http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/?p=907#comment-170 Having a playlist doesn't just work for authors while writing - it can also work for readers while reading *g* The best example is listening to the soundtrack of Last of the Mohicans while reading Pamela Clare's historicals. I did this with both Ride the Fire and Surrender and it really did help in putting me in the setting!! Listening to classical music while reading historicals is also quite the experience. And a while ago I was listening to Loreena McKennitt Live from the Alhambra CD while reading one of Bonnie Vanak's Egyptian historicals and the music fit PERFECTLY Having a playlist doesn’t just work for authors while writing – it can also work for readers while reading *g* The best example is listening to the soundtrack of Last of the Mohicans while reading Pamela Clare’s historicals. I did this with both Ride the Fire and Surrender and it really did help in putting me in the setting!! Listening to classical music while reading historicals is also quite the experience. And a while ago I was listening to Loreena McKennitt Live from the Alhambra CD while reading one of Bonnie Vanak’s Egyptian historicals and the music fit PERFECTLY

]]> By: Jessica http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/09/14/your-favorite-authors-and-her-favorite-song/#comment-168 Jessica Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:49:33 +0000 http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/?p=907#comment-168 Kate -- I am more like you. when I work, I find it hard to have music playing. Transient/ambient music sometimes works, or classical, because I don't understand it well enough to find it lyrical. Moriah -- thanks for sharing your list. Madonna's Deeper and Deeper is one of my favorite dance songs evah! It helped that she came out with that song at the same time I was getting into French psychoanalytic feminist theory. Victoria -- It's amazing isn't it, the effect music can have on your mood? Athletes know this. Lovers know this. I agree a short playlist seems like it would get repetitive for a long novel. Some authors say a certain song went with a certain scene. Like Megan Hart said somewhere that the song "What if you" was in her mind when she wrote the love scene <a href="http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/top-9-most-romantic-love-scenes-in-romance/" rel="nofollow">I list</a> as one of the best ever, from Broken. And Meredith Duran has a specific song for the scene when her lovers reconcile. Kate — I am more like you. when I work, I find it hard to have music playing. Transient/ambient music sometimes works, or classical, because I don’t understand it well enough to find it lyrical.

Moriah — thanks for sharing your list. Madonna’s Deeper and Deeper is one of my favorite dance songs evah! It helped that she came out with that song at the same time I was getting into French psychoanalytic feminist theory.

Victoria — It’s amazing isn’t it, the effect music can have on your mood? Athletes know this. Lovers know this.

I agree a short playlist seems like it would get repetitive for a long novel. Some authors say a certain song went with a certain scene. Like Megan Hart said somewhere that the song “What if you” was in her mind when she wrote the love scene I list as one of the best ever, from Broken. And Meredith Duran has a specific song for the scene when her lovers reconcile.

]]> By: Victoria Janssen http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/09/14/your-favorite-authors-and-her-favorite-song/#comment-167 Victoria Janssen Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:59:42 +0000 http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/?p=907#comment-167 I make playlists all the time, but oddly, I don't make them for my novels. Mostly it's because a novel takes so long to write, there's no way I would listen to the same few songs every single time I worked on it. (Of course, the people with novel playlists might not do that, either.) Mostly, the music I listen to is there to isolate me from what's going on outside my head, as in blocking out conversations or sirens or other random noises. So I might be writing a tender dialogue scene, and listening to Rob Zombie or Rammstein at full blast. Or I might have had a rough, busy day and am trying to calm myself down by listening to Santana or Norah Jones. Or be having a hard time concentrating, so I put on Renaissance polyphony. I also use Goth music a lot to aid concentration, because it frequently has long, trancelike melodic lines. I suppose if I ever do a playlist, it will be after the fact. I make playlists all the time, but oddly, I don’t make them for my novels. Mostly it’s because a novel takes so long to write, there’s no way I would listen to the same few songs every single time I worked on it. (Of course, the people with novel playlists might not do that, either.)

Mostly, the music I listen to is there to isolate me from what’s going on outside my head, as in blocking out conversations or sirens or other random noises. So I might be writing a tender dialogue scene, and listening to Rob Zombie or Rammstein at full blast. Or I might have had a rough, busy day and am trying to calm myself down by listening to Santana or Norah Jones. Or be having a hard time concentrating, so I put on Renaissance polyphony. I also use Goth music a lot to aid concentration, because it frequently has long, trancelike melodic lines.

I suppose if I ever do a playlist, it will be after the fact.

]]> By: MoJo http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/09/14/your-favorite-authors-and-her-favorite-song/#comment-166 MoJo Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:40:19 +0000 http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/?p=907#comment-166 I need music to help me create the characters. Here's my playlist: <a href="http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/soundtrack-the-proviso" rel="nofollow">The Proviso soundtrack</a> I need music to help me create the characters. Here’s my playlist:

The Proviso soundtrack

]]> By: Kate http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/09/14/your-favorite-authors-and-her-favorite-song/#comment-165 Kate Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:51:57 +0000 http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/?p=907#comment-165 I love this concept! I'm a writer of sorts (unpublished), and generally I can't have music on while I'm writing since I'll get so caught up in the music that I'll forget to write. But I've noticed the number of authors posting playlists and the like, and I decided that I'd set out to make a specific set of music to "enhance" the writing - songs that evoked a time or a place for me, or an emotion. I can't say if it's been successful but I've now got two great playlists on my iPod if nothing else :) I've got both playlists under the "About Kate" tag on my blog, and I'm always up for suggestions! I love looking at other playlists and getting inspiration. I love this concept! I’m a writer of sorts (unpublished), and generally I can’t have music on while I’m writing since I’ll get so caught up in the music that I’ll forget to write. But I’ve noticed the number of authors posting playlists and the like, and I decided that I’d set out to make a specific set of music to “enhance” the writing – songs that evoked a time or a place for me, or an emotion. I can’t say if it’s been successful but I’ve now got two great playlists on my iPod if nothing else :)

I’ve got both playlists under the “About Kate” tag on my blog, and I’m always up for suggestions! I love looking at other playlists and getting inspiration.

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