Hello Writerly Friends!
So there's a topic that I would like to touch on this month before it's over, and that's Instrumental music VS. Vocal music while writing.
They're both different and I think there a different things in favor of each. With vocal music it can inspire you to write a certain scene according to the music, to have the character express the same emotion that the singer is expressing. Sometimes songs can even give you full ideas for books (I'll post on this later). Vocal music is really cool and fun and if you know what you like it's very helpful. Then if you're writing something that's really romantic and you don't like the mushy songs, it can be a problem.
With instrumental music there's more creativity, or with music that just has sounds or lyrics that are hard to understand. You can sort of make it feel how you want it to. It's really fun in that way. Also, instrumental songs tend to seem like they can run together, so it can almost seem like you aren't breaking up the scene as the song changes if you have something like Pandora.com . Also, instrumental music hardly ever has objectionable lyrics, so you're sage.
What's your take one Instrumental vs. Vocal? What do you think about it? Which one do you prefer?
I am unbelievably in agreement with you! Many times whilst I have been writing and listening to vocal music, for one song my imagination was going good. But as soon as it changed I would lose the feel of the scene I was writing. But it's not so with instrumental. You're right, instrumental gives you more freedom, more creativity.
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