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(@namidaame)
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For me, since I'm writing a D&D-inspired story where one of the main characters is a bard, I tend towards fantasy lute music, like this compilation.

If I want a different flavor of music, I have a playlist on Spotify with pretty much all of the Persona OSTs. Or I'll slap on an extended version of one of the boss battle themes if I'm writing a fight scene.

What do y'all listen to?


   
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(@jasmine)
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For my current WIP, it's a mix. A lot of bluegrass, some country, and a few Southern rock songs. 


   
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(@pariswriter2007)
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Right now it's 18th Century Russian music. 


   
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(@simonnebee)
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For my current project, its classical/instrumental music or anything that gives off Victorian vibes. For my nano project last year, it was mostly southern gothic songs.


   
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For the fantasy I am working on, I have been listening to songs with a medieval/tribal sound like the Hu or Michael Pemberton. It gives me the right mood to write the setting my world takes place in.


   
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(@guardianofelyon)
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There's a playlist on Spotify that I use when I'm writing: Fantasy Music for Writing.I didn't create it, but I love it.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7bKLqUomrP7ysaAP5YnZP8?si=dd518ec913e74d8a


   
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(@unoriginality)
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Depends on which story I'm working on, though they're all big mish-mash of genres. I have one that's mostly love songs/Zelda BGMs, but then I have a couple on there that's like, wtf is that doing there?

My playlist for my giant albatross series runs a gamut from System of a Down to Taylor Swift's "country girls singing about princesses and fairy tales" days, and I'm not joking. That playlist even has a Disney song, right next to Emilie Autumn's "Scavenger," and if you don't know what that one's about, well... um. The scavenger will sell whatever will earn them a living. Including the living. So uh. Bit of a disconnect there.  😅

 

If you're curious.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4P3atbmyUoYNzTrg7ylKyd?si=7e2df8a12df14e1f


   
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(@jasmine)
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@unoriginality Love Emilie Autumn and Taylor Swift!


   
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(@unoriginality)
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@jasmine Aaaaah fellow Emilie Autumn fan! I got started with her Enchant and Opheliac albums, but her Fight Like A Girl album has me hooked. Way too much of it fits the second novel in that albatross series, and I entirely blame my MC, because he decided he wasn't good for anything but going to the heartland of the "living merchandise" industry to be the proverbial monster the real monsters are afraid of and now I'm somehow writing about a teenaged benevolent serial killer who accidentally founded and is leading a criminal gang of vigilantes made up of professional assassins and mercenaries several years his senior??? How did this happen??????????


   
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(@lady-of-the-theories)
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I like to use Attention K-Mart Shoppers, a collection of music that used to be played at K-marts.  Since it was meant to be in the background, it makes a great background for writing.


   
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