Writing, send recommendations.

[Feefee81093]

I've decided that for my day off I'm going to be productive and work on that post apocalyptic novel that will never get finished. Meanwhile I'm working on archiving my music playlist for said novel. Listening to those bops just get me in the mood, you feel me? I wanted to see what wonders you guys would recommend. What gets your creative juices flowing?

 

[CrazyRandomZyn]

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....but they haven't worked for me as I either forget or get too depressed to do the prompts

 

[Heartattak]

I would need to know what constitutes creatively viable music for you because whatever i could pull out my ass, as ive experienced before with people, would more than likely not be stimulating enough for you to even create a drawing of a stick figure.

if you dont know how to describe it, just basic genre terms will do.

 

[Toolbox]

I would need to know what constitutes creatively viable music for you because whatever i could pull out my ass, as ive experienced before with people, would more than likely not be stimulating enough for you to even create a drawing of a stick figure.

Personally music can help stimulate me to imagine things quite easily, but it's not going to be the same with everyone. Actually getting those ideas to paper is an entirely different concept to make it more complicated. It sounds like you know a lot of people that don't necessarily have the mind's eye, which a few years ago was exposed to be quite common. I don't know the name for this "disorder" but it was associated with asking people to imagine an apple, a lot of people just couldn't even do it or imagined it very rudimentarily.

 

[eDove]

Hi, fellow writer who doesn't finish things.

A post-apocalyptic setting can entail all sorts of moods. My initial idea was Noctilucant. Their music is very droning, desolate, and sad. End-of-the-worldy.

As for bops to write to, it's hard not to recommend Celldweller, particularly Soundtrack for the Voices in my Head Vol. 2. In a similar vein, Black Tiger Sex Magic's New Worlds is literally a post-apocalyptic concept EDM album that predicted covid (read the description in the video and you'll see what I mean).

Swans is a good choice for me since the songs are longer and easy to get sucked into. Something about their albums Cop, To Be Kind, and leaving meaning. helps with the writing process. They all sound different from one another.

My main project right now is high-fantasy, so most of what I listen to probably wouldn't fit with the atmosphere or time period you're writing. If I come up with more I'll name them.