The Music Of My Soul- #MFRWauthor

Welcome back for another week of #MFRWauthor, a year long blog hop challenge.
This week's post was one I got really excited about. If you've visited my blog often, you'll know that I've started a weekly segment called Music Monday. It's all about the songs that inspire me, or just get me going while I'm writing.

I love music and it's an important part of my writing process. I have running playlists for my stories, it's the soundtrack for the book. They are the songs I listened too the most when putting together the novel because the songs spoke to me for one reason or another during the process. If you click on the tab that says playlist and look over the section, you'll see it varies. I don't have any one type of music that I listen to over another. It's all about what sounds good to me, if the tune is catching, or the lyrics have deep meaning.

Music can really helps me bring a scene to life sometimes. When I was writing Fiendish, I searched for piano compositions that fit Seth's current mood as he played. I listened to them repeatedly while I wrote and immersed myself in the music as I imagined how he would do the same as he played. The last one on the list is probably my favorite. It's dark, and moody, but you can feel every note. I don't know all the technical terms for things, but as I listened to it, the whole piece just screamed at me this is it! This darkness oozes with his pain, and anger. It was perfect.

Not everything is dark and moody. I pick out 'theme' songs for my characters. Those are songs were the lyrics personify my vision of my characters personality and motivations. As I worked on Not Broken, I kept getting hung up on Malcolm. I felt like his character needed more than just the pursuit of the relationship with Calida. I kept beating myself up over it until 'his' song randomly came up in rotation on my YouTube mix. I stopped and listened to it and was hit in the face with how perfectly it fit him. It took me longer to find Calida's song for this novel (she had a different one in Fiendish) but it rolled around randomly just like Malcolm's. Again slapped in the face with how perfect it was for her.

Blogging about Malcolm's song is what kicked off the idea for my Music Monday posts. Heck, even the title of my book was inspired by a song. Gotta love those random songs on the YouTube auto playlist. Start with one thing, and end up with gems that are just what you need when you weren't even looking.

So what are some of your favorite songs and how do they inspire your writing?

Be sure to check out the other great blogs on the hop

Thanks for stopping by
~Meka