tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post3253273249553901878..comments2024-03-29T07:15:33.972-04:00Comments on Jungle Red Writers: The Melody is FamiliarJungle Red Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16646429819267618412noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-66993704708697161252010-09-17T14:13:57.340-04:002010-09-17T14:13:57.340-04:00I'm with you Hank and Barb, can't write wi...I'm with you Hank and Barb, can't write with music on. Or any noise at all.<br /><br />And Rhonda, oh no, we don't mean to always be chipper here! thanks for your story--I think that's exactly the kind of thing Laura was going for in her book!Lucy Burdette aka Roberta Isleibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660402177299546055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-59661990244975727532010-09-17T13:30:23.246-04:002010-09-17T13:30:23.246-04:00I don't like to have music on when I write. To...I don't like to have music on when I write. Too distracting--the rhythms competing with the rhythm of the prose and I'm a lyrics person, love a song with good ones, hate stupid ones, so I start listening and then I'm not working at all.<br /><br />But, there really is a soundtrack for our lives, and for our character's lives as well and it's cool to think about, even when it isn't a central feature of the character.Barb Rossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-35068394209206812752010-09-17T11:09:04.647-04:002010-09-17T11:09:04.647-04:00One of my pals asked me to create a playlist for a...One of my pals asked me to create a playlist for a girls getaway weekend we're having next month. Music DEFINITELY takes you back. last night I saw the Kids Are Alright. Didn't love it, but there's a good scene where two people who don't exactly love each other bond because they both know the words to a Joni Mitchell song.<br />But I digress...I just received my signed copy of I'd know you...from Mystery Lover's Bookshop - one of the best bookstores on the planet - and I'm looking forward to starting it tonight. I have a question for Laura, if she's still out there..how have you managed to defy the categorization that plagues a lot of female mystery writers?Rosemary Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08033747422699443024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-4417173620172253162010-09-17T10:33:10.744-04:002010-09-17T10:33:10.744-04:00I think music works so well for parachuting us int...I think music works so well for parachuting us into our fictional worlds because music goes straight to the emotion center of the brain. <br /><br />A few years ago, I spent way too much time in hospitals. I always took a CD player in with me to drown out all those noises. I even conditioned myself to fall asleep to Norah Jones's first album "Come Away with Me." <br /><br />But, as the years have passed, the feelings prompted by the music have changed. <br /><br />Now, when I hear those first few notes of "Don't Know Why," I become terribly sad. Instantly, not only do I remember how sick, frightened and helpless I was then, but I feel it <i>now</i>. Even though all those miserable treatments worked. <br /><br />So, even though that wonderful album helped me so much, I can't listen to it anymore. <br /><br />Sorry 'bout that. I realize that here at JRW we're a lot more chipper. But that anecdote certainly demonstrates the power of music. <br /><br />Anyway, a question ... Do you find that, when you use a song for a work, that when you hear the song again after you've completed the work, that the song drops you back into the world of that particular story no matter how much time has passed? And if you're working now on something else?RhondaLhttp://www.thehorseyset.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-77081071353648868712010-09-17T10:19:11.042-04:002010-09-17T10:19:11.042-04:00Laura, so lovely to see you here! Congratulations ...Laura, so lovely to see you here! Congratulations on your wild success..and fun to be on the MWA board with you! <br /><br />Oh, music is such a time machine. <br />I cannot hear Judy Collins or Joni MItchell songs from my college days without almost bursting in to tears--Someday Soon, remember that? Oh. And the Joni song, what's the title--Wish I had a river, I could sail away on..<br />Any Leonard Cohen--Suzanne?--has the same effect.<br /><br />I --honestly, no exaggeraton--broke off an engagement after hearing "That's the Way I Always Heard it Should be" by Carly Simon.<br />And whew, thank you Carly.<br /><br />I can't have music when I write. Quiet quiet quiet. Although once I had to write during a concert rehearsal at Tanglewood--yeah, deadline--and it was quite wonderful.Hank Phillippi Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420701704169428286noreply@blogger.com