Your Favourite Song At This Time Last Year
Last year at this time, I was feverishly working on a novel (it’s out now, available for purchase, and I’m told it’s wonderful by strangers, so I feel good about it). The novel initially began as an abandoned screenplay, one that remained shelved for a few years.
Then one night, I had a dream. It was rather strange, and I didn’t know the people in it. I sensed that this was a story idea and the dream stuck upon waking. At the end of the dream, a young girl sat in a dorm room, staring out her window at a boy that she wanted, but couldn’t let herself have. In the background, this song was playing. Upon waking, I knew the girl: she was the younger version of my screenplay’s protagonist, and she cared to tell a different story.
The Muse works in mysterious ways.
This song spun frequently as I wrote, not only for its plot significance, but because I relate so clearly to the struggle to seek love and yet fear it, the mental battle between fear and want. In my own life, I finally found myself ready to start, and I’m grateful for it. I am grateful for this song, and for this band. After all, every great story deserves a stellar soundtrack.
Ready To Start – Arcade Fire
Open 'Til Midnight 
I love the book so much! I am keeping notes on things that move me, connect with me, and that I just overall am over the moon about.
As I’ve been reading I keep thinking that there should be a companion soundtrack on say Spotify, or something – do you have something like that? Or at least a list of songs?
Love you and your writing xoxo
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Spotify bans Canadians. I’m really growing rather tired of all these services that the RIAA would rather I use over downloading, only to ban me from using them. Canada is really not some strange foreign land. We were never able to use Pandora, either.
I created a ‘soundtrack’ post a while back with key songs (not everything, mind you):
http://autumnbrody.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/musically-speaking/
There are a lot more songs that come up, and my writing playlist was several hundred large. Oops! Oh, and two characters have playlists. I keep meaning to post Andrew’s. Maybe this weekend. If there’s a place in the book where a song is alluded to without name or you’re curious, ask me. I learned that it’s very, very expensive to quote song lyrics in a book. Huge fees. I originally had some in the book and yanked them out.
Veronica
http://autumnbrody.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/meet-a-character-veronica-st-clair/
Miraj
http://autumnbrody.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/meet-a-character-marianna-miraj-winterside/
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I’m sorry there are all those restrictions in Canada, that just seems ridiculous to me.
Thank you soooo much for the links to the song playlists!!! Will be listening while reading…DEFINITELY ❤
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