This is one of the first posts I wrote three years ago. It feels fitting to share a post about music that inspiredFallen Princeborn: Stolen during my novel’s ARC giveaway. I hope you find the music as inspiring as I did!
I use several of Danna’s albums when I write, The Sweet Hereafter especially when I need an atmosphere of unsettlement. There is no orchestra here; often only a few string or woodwind instruments play at a time. Percussion is limited. Harmonies come and go like sunlight beneath a breaking cloudbank.
My protagonist flees an abusive home. She finally is in control of her fate…until a bizarre accident wrecks her bus. No one questions the circumstances, nor does anyone think it strange when another bus, empty of passengers but filled with everything the stranded travelers need, just so happens to come along on an otherwise abandoned stretch of interstate. Only the protagonist feels the wrongness of it all, from the ground beneath her to the sudden stillness of the trees.
I could not have closed my eyes and worked this through if not for Mychael Danna’s The Sweet Hereafter. I…
Thanks! I forgot how much of this score made such an impact on those first chapters. And it’s a curious thing, revisiting my music writing of three years ago. Has it really been that long? 🙂
Aw, shucks. Actually, this book is as old as Blondie–I wrote the first draft the year she was born. 🙂 So it’s really weird to have so many years to write a story and now be down to the wire on aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the other stories. 🙂 But anyway–Thank you, Friend. xxxxxx
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CONGRATULATIONS!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Hope it’s all good lovely Lady J xxxxxx
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You and me both 🙂
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How amazing to revisit this.
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Thanks! I forgot how much of this score made such an impact on those first chapters. And it’s a curious thing, revisiting my music writing of three years ago. Has it really been that long? 🙂
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We never know where three years go!
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That’s 3 years hard work, determination and creativity against the odds to celebrate. It’s inspiring.
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Aw, shucks. Actually, this book is as old as Blondie–I wrote the first draft the year she was born. 🙂 So it’s really weird to have so many years to write a story and now be down to the wire on aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the other stories. 🙂 But anyway–Thank you, Friend. xxxxxx
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