30 Days: Mood Music

lassarina asked my top five mood music pieces for writing, and their corresponding moods.

Music is very important to my writing process. I find that I get much more smoothly into the writing process if I have music playing, and some kinds of music is better than others: instrumental, or words not in English, movie scores (or artists like Moby and E.S. Posthumous that sound like movie scores even when they are not), classical, less-energetic technopop and New Wave. I have a number of playlists, but more and more I find that I'm choosing to listen to albums when I write. (I know, albums: how retro!) I love the way a good album blends, one song into the next, more predictably than a playlist on random, and it's helpful to go for 45 minutes to an hour without having to think about what music I'm going to pick next.

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I feel like I could keep listing songs and artists all night, but I'll stop here, for now. If I run out of topics, you may get an overflow post...

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