IWSG: April

 It's 1 April so it's time for the Insecure Writers Support Group!

The awesome co-hosts for this  posting of the IWSG are Melissa Maygrove, Cathrina Constantine, Kate Larkindale, and Rebecca Douglass!

This month's question is an interesting one:

If you have a playlist (or could put one together) that either gets you in the groove to write or fits with one of your books, what is it? What type of music or what songs?

I usually don't listen to music while I'm writing, and if I do, I listen to music without lyrics or with lyrics in a language I don't understand.  I also don't find I have a particular playlist for a specific book most of the time.  With a few very important exceptions.

The Sidewalk's Regrets had a soundtrack, but it's a book about music and falling in love with music.  The specific album I thrashed while writing that one was Teenage Snuff Film by Rowland S. Howard.

Guide Us also had a soundtrack, but a very different one.  That book was fueled by musical theater songs.

The rest of my books don't really have specific songs associated with them, although I guess you could say Standing Too Close was partially inspired by the Police song Don't Stand Too Close to Me. The title anyway.  And the fact there's an inappropriate teacher-student relationship in there.

Mostly, if I listen to music while writing, I listen to a playlist of classical music I call Classical Music for Metalheads.  It has all the really bombastic classical music moments, the ones that show the clear line between classical and metal.  It's great for amping up the energy.

Or, I listen to Arabic music which is achingly beautiful even though I can't understand the words at all.

And, I love Elgar's cello concertos.  They're amazing to write to.  So many different textures and emotions in there,

I have a new book brewing in my head right now.  I'm not sure if I'm a good enough writer to tackle it because the main character is going to be a huge challenge to write.  I need a little more time for him to settle (why do all my main characters at the moment seem to be boys?) in my brain, and there are some other characters that haven't fully revealed themselves yet.  I wonder if this book will have a playlist. and if so, what it might be...

What kind of music do you like to listen to when you write?   Do your books have playlists?