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?
- same
- 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?
