How to write with Music? Setting

You are the Character.
Where are you?
Who are you with?
What do you hear?
What do you listen to?

The Environment

  • Where are you?
  • Where are you effectively?
  • Can you describe the place?
  • Now.
  • Where does the Music bring you?
  • How does it change the Environment?
  • How does it affect your perception?
  • Atmosphere
  • How is the Atmosphere?
  • How is the Weather?
  • How do the Sounds merge with your perception of the Atmosphere?
  • Can the Music transcribe the Cold?
  • Can the Music transcribe the Warmth?
  • How does it make the environment faster?
  • How does it make the environment slower?
  • Noises
  • Which Noises can you hear?
  • What kind of Vegetals are there?
  • What kind of Animals are there?
  • Do they squeak?
  • Do they squeal?
  • Do they converse with each other?
  • How hostile are they?
  • Are they distressed?
  • Music
  • How do the ambient noise articulate with the Music?
  • Are they muffled by the Music?
  • Is the Music smothered by the Noises?
  • Do they cancel each other?
  • Do they complement each other?
  • Silence
  • When does silence come?
  • Is there any Life left?
  • Are you in Inertia?
  • What’s the effect of this natural silence?
  • How does it differ from an artificial silence?
  • What caused this silence?
  • Where is everyone?
  • Which dim noises can you still here?

The People

  • Voices
  • Can you hear their voices?
  • What do they evoke to you?
  • Can you get their message?
  • How do they feel?
  • How do they sound?
  • How are their voices?
  • Are they flinching?
  • Are they calm?
  • Speech
  • How do they speak?
  • Do they hear the Music too?
  • Do they mention it?
  • How often to they speak about it?
  • How do they feel because of it?
  • Do they hear other noises?
  • How do their speech affect you?
  • Words
  • Can you hear their words?
  • Can you hear distinctively?
  • Which words do they repeat the most?
  • How do their words affect you?
  • Are they disagreeable?
  • Are they enjoyable?
  • Do you want to hear them more, but cannot?
  • Listen & Focus
  • Can you get closer to them?
  • Does the music distract you?
  • Does it hurt you?
  • Can you focus?
  • Can you speak to them?
  • How does the Music affect them?
  • Do they suffer because of it?
  • Does it excite them?
  • Does it arouse them?
  • Does it soothe them?
  • So much so that they begin to fall sleep?

Your Environment

  • Posture & Disposition
  • How are you?
  • How are you sit?
  • How inclined to write are you?
  • Do you need a stimulation?
  • Does music act as your stimulant?
  • Is it effective?
  • Does it help you to write faster?
  • Does it help you to write smoother?
  • Comfort
  • How does the music you listen to affect your writing?
  • Did you chose this music?
  • Was it suggested to you?
  • Did you want to try something you’re no used to?
  • How unusual does this music feel to you?
  • Do you enjoy this music?
  • Does it make you want to write for longer?
  • Does it turn you off?
  • Genres
  • What is your Story’s theme?
    • What is the Music’s theme?
  • What is the Character’s goal?
    • What is the Composer’s goal?
  • What is the setting’s focus?
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  • What are the limits of this Story?
    • What is the mode used?
    • What is the tone used?
  • Which genre do you feel most comfortable writing?
    • Which genre do you feel most comfortable listening to?
  • How does the genre of the Music you’re listening relates to the scene you’re writing?
  • Music Selection
  • What is Underneath this music?
  • Why did you began listening to this musical genre?
  • Can you identify the different parts?
  • Can you identify the essential phrases?
  • Can you identify the riff/ostinato?
  • To which extent can you decompose this Piece of Music?

Making Music

  • Origin of the Music
  • What do you know of this Music?
  • How well do you know the composer?
  • Do you know why she started making music?
  • How did the Music came to be?
  • Where was this composer when she thought of it?
  • Where was this composer when she composed of it?
  • Was is it indented to be used in a story like yours?
  • Was is it indented to be used in a setting like yours?
  • Affinity with the Music
  • What do you think about?
  • What do you feel?
  • Is it the feeling you intended to feel?
  • What is the gap between the intended emotion & the actual one?
  • What would you change?
  • Where would you place this music?
  • What would be a more appropriate setting?
  • Favorite Music
  • Make a list of your 10 favorite pieces.
  • Do they fit your settings?
  • Which setting is missing a tune?
  • Can you imagine this tune?
  • Would you change 1 of your favorite pieces to fit the setting?
  • How would you change it?
  • Can you mimic this music?
  • What makes you want to make music?
  • A Fruitful Habit
  • Do you have 5′ a day?
  • It may seem insignificant, what good could it do?
  • What about trying it for a week?
  • For a month?
  • It may prove itself pleasant.
  • And under a year…
  • Maybe you’ll be up with a new skill.
  • Studio
  • Do you have an extra room?
  • Maybe an extra corner?
  • Or just a desk you’re not using?
  • Would a keyboard fit on this desk?
    • Even a cheap keyboard.
  • How will you set up this place?
  • How will you make it more comfortable?
  • What could you do to make it home?

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