no one in her right mind

[fahye]

8137 words, nine days until deadline, and I've had to reduce my writing playlist for this particular story to three songs -- though it could be worse, I've written some things to the backing of a SINGLE song.

In case you're curious, the current songs are:

* Vienna Teng - Eric's Song
* The Mountain Goats - Autoclave
* The Lion King (Broadway) - They Live In You

Do other people write like this? Do you have a general playlist that suits your writing style? (I do.) Do you build new playlists for particular fics? (I do.) Do you sometimes end up writing to just one song on constant repeat? (*looks balefully at Turn Your Sail and 'Up Is Down'*) Are there one or two songs that will always help you past a block?

Comments

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

I have a writing playlist, a general shippy playlist, and a few playlists for specific ships (hellooo, pilots). But I've written plenty of fics with a single song on repeat for hours and hours. So...yes, to all of the above!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

OH PILOTS. I still remember my glee when Clairza sent me a CD full of pilotsongs to play in the car. My PILOTS playlist is now 37 songs long.

Which single songs have you written fics to, out of interest?

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

My pilots playlist has 57 songs, and my general shippy one has 93. They've both been longer in the past, and could probably do with being a great deal shorter as it is. Must downsize.

I wrote A Joy You Can't Keep In (http://carrielh.livejournal.com/250892.html) while listening to "Set The Fire To The Third Bar" approximately ten million times. Then this one (http://carrielh.livejournal.com/283386.html) with Damien Rice's "9 Crimes". (Apparently this type of writing applies to me mostly when I'm writing RPF? WHO KNEW.)

Also "Nowhere Warm" by Kate Havnevik, "Home" by Vanessa Carlton, "Miss America" by Something Corporate, and "Breathe Me" by Sia, just off the top of my head.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

'Set The Fire To The Third Bar' is one of my two failsafe writing songs :D And 'Breathe Me' is pretty high on the list too. I haven't tried writing to SoCo songs before, but I might give it a shot!