Writing To Your Own Tune(s)

It's funny how my wife uses the TV as backgound noise while she reads and I prefer music while I write. I just can't concentrate on my characters' actions when someone else's are blaring out of the tube at me. On the flip side, my wife is a musician who can't concentrate with music while she reads because she keeps timing the music. C'est la vie!

I'm embarking on my next screenplay, which means it's time to locate music that fits the mood and atmosphere of my story. My last writing 'soundtrack' included Catch Me If You Can and Road to Perdition. I think Cinderella Man and Gangs of New York might be it this time.

I know some writers who listen to rock or punk or country while they write. Although I have tried before, 'radio music' just hasn't been able to put me into that cinematic storytelling mode. So for now, I'll stick to what works. A good, dramatic cinematic soundtrack.

Now, enough procrastinating...back to work!