Write with music or without it?

by Jeferson Bello
12th July 2013

Hi, everyone! Ago a couple of day a mate ask me if I write listening music because that will help me to write better, what is your opinion about that?

P.S, Normally I write without listen music.

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I can't say I'm much of a writer, but as someone who loves to illustrate, I ALWAYS listen to music. I think it helps me convey the emotion of a particular song into the character I'm working on. However, whenever I have tried writing, music hasn't really helped me, as Chantelle previously said, the words get muddled in my head. But if it works for you... why not! :P

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Hanifa Ali
04/01/2014

Well, as already I said, I prefer write without it – I don't know! I feel as if the ideas come my mind easier. These days, I've been writing in some cafés where there are much people and – as the writers we're very superstitious – the ideas have come to me of a incredible way, so I'm writing in cafés now, but without listen music – I find it really distracting.

I suppose is thing of each writer write or not with it. Good luck everyone! :)

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Jeferson Bello
16/07/2013

It's different from writer to writer. I have to listen to music when writing. It's so bad that I even use it to get me in different moods that I need in the scene I'm writing - melancholic music for sad scenes, hard rock for angry scenes etc etc.

Mostly I just use music to shut up the narrator in my head and let my fingers do the talking :)

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