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I write to music. A more accurate statement is I live to music. I
always have music going. The only time I shut my music off is when I go to bed because it stimulates me too much and I don't go to sleep. But most of the time, iTunes is working over time (or I'm singing).
I am a little particular about my writing music. I don't do secular music at all. I prefer to have a whole album to listen to so I don't have to stop writing to play my next song. But most of all, it has to be an album that NOT singable. If I know the words, or the words are easy to learn, I'm singing and not writing.
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When I wrote
Love Simplified, I tried a couple of albums before I found the right one. I settled on Tenth Avenue North's
Over and Underneath. I played that album so many times it's a miracle I didn't learn the words. And some days, when my writing was intense, I'd put the track
Love is Here on repeat. That album got me through the edits, too.
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So I'm starting a new novel and I need a soundtrack. I was leaning towards Tenth Avenue North's new album,
The Struggle, but I've already learned the words to the last song on the track (
Lamb of God, LOVE IT). My second runner up was Matt Redman's
10,000 Reasons, but I know the words to
Bless the Lord (10,000 Reasons), another song I love
.
Give me your suggestions for a new writing CD and I'll give you a shout-out in the acknowledgments of the next book!
1 comment:
Maybe you could use a series of CD's called Lemon Jelly. They barely have any words on the tracks!
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