Use Your Confusion
FrootBat31 has a good post up about music to write by. Through some lateral browsing I also came across musicovery.com, a site that populates playlists based on mood and preference information inputed by users. You can also filter for decade. Somehow musicovery knew that when I input “dark” as my mood I’d be all about hearing “Winds of Change” by the Scorpions. I’m a sucker for perestroika rock.
This strikes me a great tool for writers because writers are moody by default and definition. It’s not wallowing if you know you’re doing it, and you’re going to obsess about whatever it is you’re obsessing about anyway. Might as well get some catharsis and inspiration out of it.
Ohhhh…the Stereophonics just gave way to “The Wind Cries Mary.” See what I mean?
