and the influence of music on imagination fascinates me
I wish I had more to report. There's almost always some kind of music playing in my life (even if it's me), but it's only in the last year or so that I've actually started recording what music I write to, much less how it shows up in my stories. At some point I should probably make a serious examination of the process. Not all songs whose lyrics show up in the text were playing as I wrote; not all songs that were playing manifest in the text. As examples, I'll point out that in addition to the songs already named in this post, Myslovitz's "Blue Velvet" and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow, Wendy" went into "Drink Down," as did Tom Waits' "Another Man's Vine" and "The Black Swan" from Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium. Some of these will be readily perceptible to readers other than me: lyrics, allusions, paraphrases. Some of them, however, I'm not sure anyone other than me will see how they fit. I'd be very curious to know, but how would I conduct that sort of survey? The best I can probably do is mark down the playlist (as it were) in the story note, and hope someone other than me will care years later.
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I wish I had more to report. There's almost always some kind of music playing in my life (even if it's me), but it's only in the last year or so that I've actually started recording what music I write to, much less how it shows up in my stories. At some point I should probably make a serious examination of the process. Not all songs whose lyrics show up in the text were playing as I wrote; not all songs that were playing manifest in the text. As examples, I'll point out that in addition to the songs already named in this post, Myslovitz's "Blue Velvet" and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow, Wendy" went into "Drink Down," as did Tom Waits' "Another Man's Vine" and "The Black Swan" from Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium. Some of these will be readily perceptible to readers other than me: lyrics, allusions, paraphrases. Some of them, however, I'm not sure anyone other than me will see how they fit. I'd be very curious to know, but how would I conduct that sort of survey? The best I can probably do is mark down the playlist (as it were) in the story note, and hope someone other than me will care years later.