This is a blog post about the music i enjoy listening to while I write both creatively and formally.
So when I'm writing I need focus and usually a calm but thrilling atmosphere to both inspire me in the moment and keep a constant consistent flow to my writing. What appeals to me most for this is blues rock, old school r&b, contemporary sound tracks or different forms of soft rock. It's overall a lot of tunes with gentle flows and melodies that bring some tranquil happiness to my dark mind. If I were to imagine my musical flow while i write i think it would be a waterfall of dark blue honey surrounded by Joshua trees, bright stars and animals cuddling around and about. I currently have a long playlist which i add to almost every day, i shuffle it around often but i think it has good value and quality when it comes to my writing and it could have value to you as well so feel free to check it out. Thank you for listening. have a good day.
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This is an honest post about my writing process. I plan to update this occasionally with no set routine.
Currently my favorite place to write is a local cafe or place of frequently purchased coffee or food. Sadly those are rather inconvenient for me as distance goes so i dont often have the opportunity to go to one of them unless on my day off which is about once a week. If I cannot go to one of these locations then i prefer my kitchen due to the frequent movement outside my large window and being in bed keeps me in a state of non-prosperous thought. I typically drink tea or water while i write and love to write while eating food. I do not know why but it seems to make me happy and focused. My parents often wonder why I dont like to do written work at home. To that I would say i feel trapped, bored and too grey. I need some form of movement, action, life. Now of course id hate the loud noise of a mall or any busy location but anywhere where i can see or feel the world moving helps. Heck if parks had outlets for laptops I would feel overjoyed to do my work in such a peaceful but lively setting. Due to my need for movement I often prefer to listen to music while I work. This music usually consists of soulful tracks from the early days of rock and blues but can also have various calming sorts of alternate rock and famous or unique sound tracks. I also write in a hurry in a sometimes unorganized fashion, which is odd because of my need for organization in the workplace and in my car. Sometimes I need to write in this manner simply since I have a lack of time in life due to working daily. Overall I enjoy my writing but sometimes when uninspired i feel a cloud of depression hit the paper that im writing which causes me to become sluggish. Id say this is alike to "writer's block" although i would call it more like pushing a "writer's wall". But I always try try again to overcome this wall. Hope you enjoy my writing maybe you can learn from my current process to overcome your problems. Ill be here if you have questions. Thank you for listening. This is a collage of interesting quotes from myself and three separate articles. These quotes should display an insight to my the composition of my mind and writing. Each article is linked in case they strike your interest. Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product -Don Murray Quote 1: "Year after year the student shudders under a barrage of criticism, much of it brilliant, some of it stupid, and all of it irrelevant. No matter how careful our criticisms, they do not help the student since when we teach composition we are not teaching a product, we are teaching a process."-Don Murray Quote 2: "We have to respect the student, not for his product, not for the paper we call literature by giving it a grade, but for the search for truth in which he is engaged. We must listen carefully for those words that may reveal a truth, that may reveal a voice. We must respect our student for his potential truth and for his potential voice. We are coaches, encourages, developers, creators of environments in which our students can experience the writing process for themselves. Let us see what some of the implications of teaching process, not product are for the composition curriculum"-Don Murray Quote 3: "Implication No. 3. The student uses his own language. Too often, as writer and teacher Thomas Williams points out, we teach English to our students as if it were a foreign language. Actually, most of our students have learned a great deal of language before they come to us, and they are quite willing to exploit that language if they are allowed to embark on a serious search for their own truth." -Don Murray The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers -Maria Popova Quote 1: "When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through."-Ernest Hemmingway Quote 2: "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."-E.B. White Quote 3: "When I’m really working I don’t like to go out or have anybody to dinner, because then I lose the hour. If I don’t have the hour, and start the next day with just some bad pages and nowhere to go"-Joan Didion Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life -Anne Lamott Quote 1: "If you write a long piece, and it's your first, and you're wondering if it's publishable, it isin't, even by a long shot"-Anne Lamott Quote 2: "There are probably a number of ways to tell your story right, and someone may be able to tell you whether or not you've found one of these ways." Quote 3: "When someone reliable gives you this kind of feedback, you now have some true sense of your work's effect on people." Self Quotes: Quote 1: Always focus on your main theme or themes when writing as to not become distracted by unnecessary things and ramble on unnecessary paths. Quote 2: Tea is always better than coffee for writing since it disperses caffeine much slower and with much less crash. Quote 3: When you can write where you don't usually reside, I recommend this because i feel bored and trapped in my location and my own head when i write in one place ive been too long. |
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