Do you imagine music...

Leukman · 11-07-2009, 06:57 AM

Backing up...

Do you imagine your novel on the big screen?

Do you envision who would play that parts?

Me? I am constantly hearing music that I imagine fitting scenes in my ms to a tee...

It's almost aggravating...cause, yanno, if my ms were ever made into a motion pic, I'd prolly have NO say in the soundtrack.

Pfft.

Brutal Mustang · 11-07-2009, 07:20 AM

I always imagine my characters being played by brilliant new actors, you know, in that film that made them big. Like it was in StarWars (not that I would consider all those actors "brilliant", but you get the idea, right?).

BigWords · 11-07-2009, 08:07 AM

I'm siding with Tarantino on the casting angle - bring back the great actors who have fallen out of favor in recent years. I actually let out a little yelp when I saw Sonny Chiba in Kill Bill. Yeah, I am that pathetic.

Rhys Cordelle · 11-07-2009, 09:32 AM

I have certain songs that I attribute to my characters. I don't envisage them as movie soundtracks songs but more like a personal soundtrack to my novel

MGraybosch · 11-07-2009, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Leukman

Do you imagine your novel on the big screen?

Yeah, I have that nightmare from time to time.

Mumut · 11-07-2009, 10:38 AM

When I'm listening to the classics I can often attribute a scene the music would go with.

kangolNcurlz · 11-07-2009, 10:56 AM

Nah. I'm trying hard just to imagine my novel in a bookstore.

RG570 · 11-07-2009, 11:03 AM

Nope. Never.

I am one of the few remaining writers who will admit it and frequently reminds the reader that they are holding and reading a text.

raegan_1 · 11-07-2009, 11:09 AM

When I'm writing, I tend to listen to music. I have often found songs that fit the characters I'm writing in that moment, or in the scene. Sometimes I'll be listening to the radio in the car or while doing work and it will inspire me to think of a character.

The reverse is not true; it's very rare that I actually think of a song when I'm writing in silence.

som1luvsmi · 11-07-2009, 11:18 AM

I almost always see my story playing out as a movie in my head.

And when I hear certain songs, they usually trigger a scene in my head.

Pepper · 11-07-2009, 01:29 PM

I once had a dream of becoming a Writer/Director, so it's kinda inevitable that I imagine the words I write as action on the big screen. I don't picture the actors playing the roles though (ie. Brad Pitt as my MC), because my characters are my own. Oh yeah. They'd have to find someone new for those roles. But sure, I hear the soundtracks. I see what are special effects and what's just damn good prop use. Maybe I'm strange that way.

LuckyH · 11-07-2009, 02:04 PM

I used to write with music playing in the background. If it was classical, I would use long words and paragraphs; it it was rap, my writing would be staccato stuff, short words, hurried paragraphs; country music made me write soppy stuff, and pop music meant my story being subverted completely.

So, reluctantly, I now write in silence. I don’t mind bird song, or the sound of the waves lapping against the shore (I’m dreaming), or even distant traffic.

When I stop for a break, I turn on the music as loud as I dare to make up for the lost time.

ejaycee · 11-07-2009, 02:14 PM

Guilty as charged. On the music count, anyway. Whenever I hand a short story or something to someone, I want to tell them to read with with such and such song by such and such band, just so they get the right feel. ^_^ With regards to films, it's only the one that plays inside my head.

Wayne K · 11-07-2009, 04:42 PM

I've gone so far as to start trolling screenwriting and songwriting threads lately. I don't dream I do. A million to one shot you say? Good, now I have another goal.

This is the guy who will play me

Leukman · 11-07-2009, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Wayne K

I've gone so far as to start trolling screenwriting and songwriting threads lately. I don't dream I do. A million to one shot you say? Good, now I have another goal.

This is the guy who will play me

AT'S THE SPIRIT!

Fredster · 11-07-2009, 05:36 PM

I only imagine music when I'm writing action scenes, and it's generally from the Flash Gordon soundtrack. Bad movie, awesome music.

OpheliaRevived · 11-07-2009, 06:14 PM

I second Raegan_1.

ishtar'sgate · 11-07-2009, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Leukman

Me? I am constantly hearing music that I imagine fitting scenes in my ms to a tee...

Me too. I'll even play the music every time I work on the scene during rewrites. I think it helps me get all I can from specific scenes.

Freelancer · 11-07-2009, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Leukman

Do you imagine your novel on the big screen?

Always. I also have the official soundtrack for my WIP, what is making it easier, but I also use Immediate Music, X-Ray Dog, Two Steps from Hell and Audiomachine (If there will be a movie about my WIP, they're the candidates for the music too, parallel the OST.). Also I'm writing it to have a chance to adapt it quickly to screenplay one on one. So I'm adding every necessary detail and even imagined camera angles into the novel. Music is very helpful by my opinion as it can give a rythm to your work, what the reader also can notice (As one of my beta said).

CocoCat · 11-08-2009, 07:06 AM

Not a sound track but parts at least of a score. I wrote a particular kind of music into a scene of my WIP as it's culture-building and very relevant to that race. I dream big so if I even got half way there I think at least someone making a film out of it would probably include that.

ejaycee · 11-08-2009, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wayne K

I've gone so far as to start trolling screenwriting and songwriting threads lately. I don't dream I do. A million to one shot you say? Good, now I have another goal.

This is the guy who will play me

Please, please, please remind me not to click on any of your links again. Actually, more to the point, make sure it's not when my mum is about to walk into my room.

*dies*

11-07-2009, 06:57 AM	#1
Leukman Pernicious Monkey Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: I HAZ BANANA!! Posts: 5,959	Do you imagine music... Backing up... Do you imagine your novel on the big screen? Do you envision who would play that parts? Me? I am constantly hearing music that I imagine fitting scenes in my ms to a tee... It's almost aggravating...cause, yanno, if my ms were ever made into a motion pic, I'd prolly have NO say in the soundtrack. Pfft.

11-07-2009, 07:20 AM	#2
Brutal Mustang Savage. Yet beautiful. Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Terrorizing the Colorado range. Posts: 382	I always imagine my characters being played by brilliant new actors, you know, in that film that made them big. Like it was in StarWars (not that I would consider all those actors "brilliant", but you get the idea, right?). __________________ The world owes me nothing.

11-07-2009, 08:07 AM	#3
BigWords Writing is like breathing Join Date: May 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 2,162	I'm siding with Tarantino on the casting angle - bring back the great actors who have fallen out of favor in recent years. I actually let out a little yelp when I saw Sonny Chiba in Kill Bill. Yeah, I am that pathetic. __________________ My blog. Read my NaNoWriMo novel as I write it through November. And I'm linking to other AW blogs here.

11-07-2009, 09:32 AM	#4
Rhys Cordelle Fantasy Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: New Zealand - a.k.a Middle Earth Posts: 274	I have certain songs that I attribute to my characters. I don't envisage them as movie soundtracks songs but more like a personal soundtrack to my novel __________________ Operating under the assumption that my rather expensive, shiny, new laptop will inspire me to write more... or play more games.

11-07-2009, 10:38 AM	#6
Mumut Well begun is half done... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 3,305	When I'm listening to the classics I can often attribute a scene the music would go with. __________________ The Gatekeeper - Zeus, Australia 2006 The Guardian of the Gate - Lachesis, Canada 2009 Rudigor's Revenge - Zeus, Australia 2008 (soon by Lachesis, Canada) The Regiment - Zeus, November 2009 The Annelise Series (4) - with publisher, Sept 2009 Gatekeeper filmscript - complete The Laird of Lanay filmscript - complete

11-07-2009, 10:56 AM	#7
kangolNcurlz Lovin' this road. Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Earth Posts: 266	Nah. I'm trying hard just to imagine my novel in a bookstore. __________________ WiP: *You Are One of Us* (sci-fi) - Complete draft one WiP: Sok (sci-fi) sequel - 23% complete WiP: Untitled (paranormal) - 27% complete I love reading cheesy romance. I Kangol (hats). Nothing is final until you're dead, and even then I'm sure God negotiates. --Angelica Houston, Ever After: A Cinderella Story

11-07-2009, 11:03 AM	#8
RG570 AW Addict Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: British Columbia Posts: 990	Nope. Never. I am one of the few remaining writers who will admit it and frequently reminds the reader that they are holding and reading a text.

11-07-2009, 11:09 AM	#9
raegan_1 Funny, motivated, eccentric. Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Not-Hawaii Posts: 284	When I'm writing, I tend to listen to music. I have often found songs that fit the characters I'm writing in that moment, or in the scene. Sometimes I'll be listening to the radio in the car or while doing work and it will inspire me to think of a character. The reverse is not true; it's very rare that I actually think of a song when I'm writing in silence. __________________ Rae, Dragon-Breeder

11-07-2009, 11:18 AM	#10
som1luvsmi Assassin Kitteh Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: The land of NaNo.....procrastinating Posts: 3,642	I almost always see my story playing out as a movie in my head. And when I hear certain songs, they usually trigger a scene in my head. __________________ -Sarah Assassin Kitteh is nobody's pet. She is a wanderer. She goes where good folks need her help. (Or where the optimal amount of mayhem can be produced.) Do not weep for Assassin Kitteh. She rides alone...because she must. NaNo WIP-Souls Inc. - 11569/50000

11-07-2009, 01:29 PM	#11
Pepper I IS PRANCING Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 348	I once had a dream of becoming a Writer/Director, so it's kinda inevitable that I imagine the words I write as action on the big screen. I don't picture the actors playing the roles though (ie. Brad Pitt as my MC), because my characters are my own. Oh yeah. They'd have to find someone new for those roles. But sure, I hear the soundtracks. I see what are special effects and what's just damn good prop use. Maybe I'm strange that way. __________________ Follow me on for regular prattling & writing updates ~ The Crooked Hour ~ YA Fantasy Just started and trying damn hard to churn out chapter one. ~ Untitled WIP ~ Adult Sci-Fi Must stop revising an unfinished first draft >_<

11-07-2009, 02:04 PM	#12
LuckyH AW Addict Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 214	I used to write with music playing in the background. If it was classical, I would use long words and paragraphs; it it was rap, my writing would be staccato stuff, short words, hurried paragraphs; country music made me write soppy stuff, and pop music meant my story being subverted completely. So, reluctantly, I now write in silence. I don’t mind bird song, or the sound of the waves lapping against the shore (I’m dreaming), or even distant traffic. When I stop for a break, I turn on the music as loud as I dare to make up for the lost time.

11-07-2009, 02:14 PM	#13
ejaycee Apple Addicts Anonymous Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Tasmania, Australia Posts: 559	Guilty as charged. On the music count, anyway. Whenever I hand a short story or something to someone, I want to tell them to read with with such and such song by such and such band, just so they get the right feel. ^_^ With regards to films, it's only the one that plays inside my head. __________________ Look! A distraction! My NaNo WIP: Stolen Flight (title may vary ) Words of Wisdom: Yes, 99, but there's an old Chinese proverb that goes: life is like a pair of chopsticks. If you grab them... eh, you, eh... No, that's not it. Let me see... Ehm... Life is like a shirt. If you lose your buttons, you... No, that isnt it either. Let's see... I've got it! Life is a kumquat.

11-07-2009, 04:42 PM	#14
Wayne K [witticism] Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Dancing in the pale moonlight. Posts: 9,658	I've gone so far as to start trolling screenwriting and songwriting threads lately. I don't dream I do. A million to one shot you say? Good, now I have another goal. This is the guy who will play me __________________ What happened? "Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book."-James D. Macdonald.

11-07-2009, 05:36 PM	#16
Fredster Village idiot Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 110	I only imagine music when I'm writing action scenes, and it's generally from the Flash Gordon soundtrack. Bad movie, awesome music.

11-07-2009, 06:14 PM	#17
OpheliaRevived Classy Dame Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Southbound Handbasket Posts: 258	I second Raegan_1. __________________ "I wanna be, like, the abyss deep." - Caroline Forbes *"Korsikov": WIP put on back burner for total rework.; Historical Fiction* *"Anya the Terrible": Current WIP, YA* *"Perfect": Outlining/plotting the proper way to inflict this wip on the world* *Will flatter for Rep Points*

11-08-2009, 07:06 AM	#20
CocoCat New kid, be gentle! Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 26	Not a sound track but parts at least of a score. I wrote a particular kind of music into a scene of my WIP as it's culture-building and very relevant to that race. I dream big so if I even got half way there I think at least someone making a film out of it would probably include that.

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