So, I’ve been working for a while at the Storywonk Making Magic class. It’s taken me a little while to get into the magic groove, actually, (odd since I’m such a fantasy fan,) but there’s some great stuff in the course. I totally recommend it, especially for the encouraging tips Lani has about different ways to go out and hunt your magic; activities to help you get in touch with your muse, and sort out the inspiration you need for this particular book.
The first big exercise was the soundtrack. I love using music to fuel my inspiration, and Lani had some good tips for how to pick a good soundtrack, and avoiding the dangers of using something with too many memories that don’t really fit the book. On the other hand, I found I had some problems with her approach of going out and finding brand new music, because it takes me too long to figure out how I feel about a new song. So for my ‘Alien Love on a Kitchen Scale’ soundtrack, I ended up going through the ‘mid-tier’ of my music collection, considering a bunch of songs that I kinda liked but hadn’t rated with high numbers of stars. A few B-list songs snuck in there, mostly because I couldn’t shake the fact that they’d shown me something important about my characters, and I had to work for a few days cutting the list down to a length that seemed reasonable. Here’s the final soundtrack, more or less in the order of priority I was using to axe the last few stragglers:
- Love Is My Witness, by Amanda Marshall
- Clueless, by Billy Gilman
- If My Life Was a Movie, by Steve Fox
- That Was Us, by Alexz Johnson
- Clocks, by Coldplay
- Not That Different, by Collin Raye
- Variations 1-4, by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- More Love, by the Dixie Chicks
- Snow Globe, by Chely Wright
- Benefit of Doubt, by Chris Cummings
- I Just Came Back From a War, by Darryl Worley
- Waiting For Angels, by the Ennis Sisters
- Haunted (Acoustic version) by Taylor Swift
- Life For Rent, by Dido
- I Wonder, by Aaron Pritchett
- St John’s Waltz, by Ron Hynes
- Blown Away, by Carrie Underwood
- Summertown Road, by Brad Johner
- Must To Be Free, by The Watchmen
- Reasons Why, by Nickel Creek
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