Blockage
Hello, writer's block, my old friend. Come to talk to you again.
The time I have to myself to write is precious. Tuesday's my mom comes for a bit. So I'm supposed to be sitting here making tremendous progress, and so far I've managed to paste a few things around, re-read some old paragraphs I wrote, and try to figure what I'm supposed to do. Chris asked, "So what are going to do today?" And I said, "start writing and see where it takes me." But, realistically I don't really write like that, because I lack the fluidity. I'm just not the type that Starts Writing. But at the same time, I'm not sure what the final organization is going to look like, how the clumps are going to come together. Hmm. Maybe I'll just work on clumps and worry about introduction later. It's a hard to introduce fuzzy fog. See, writing this blog post is already helping, because, first of all, I'm writing, which I am not when staring at the blinking cursor in a word document, wondering if I can actually make an shuffle in my iTunes. (So far it's not been that great. I just have too small and too diverse of a library. I just need to make "Study Mix"...anybody got some great ideas for good study music. I used to be the study music, then I stopped, now I'm on again. It lets me know time is passing and drowns out the oppressive silence.)
Feels good to be typing, let's carry some of the momentum back on over to the word doc.
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Sarah Brightman is relaxing and soft...
Posted by: Dawn | 24.10.06 16:02
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HEM's album Rabbit Songs is Fantastic and some of Over the Rhine is useful for background music when writing!
Posted by: austina | 24.10.06 21:46
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I wrote most of my dissertation with a soundtrack of Glenn Gould's recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Two- and Three-Part Inventions. Medieval chants worked well, too -- I have this one album by the Anonymous 4 that was my study/writing music for quite a while.
Posted by: Amanda | 25.10.06 14:32
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Suggesting music for a musicologist is a danger, because you'll then analyze how crappy my taste in music is.
But I really like Enya...these days for falling asleep, though. :) Movie soundtracks are good. I listen to a lot of Cher. Bluegrass is good for me, too.
My study music tends to be something I've listened to a lot, so that it can be true background music. If it's something new, then I actively listen to it and be becomes foreground music. And unlike my sister, I can listen to music with words when studying. Consequently my study music can be any style, not just "blah oatmeal wordless" music.
Try Cher. Or one of those 'workout' mixes to get you energized.
Posted by: Krista | 25.10.06 17:14
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I really like Iron and Wine.
Posted by: funke | 25.10.06 17:32
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Try Yann Tierson--who wrote the soundtrack for Amelie. Tim got me a CD, and I adore it. Especially since you're a fan of minimalism/postminimalism. Plus, with minimalism you can let your attention wander as you do your work, and when you pay attention again, you haven't missed much. Just Kidding!
Posted by: Jo | 27.10.06 00:32
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ah, Iron and Wine, I wrote my SIP to the Woman King EP. Also, I'm not sure what you're into, but I love RJD2. I several papers to his album Since We Last Spoke. He's kind of funk, I think, although I'm fuzzy on my genre definitions.
Posted by: linnea | 27.10.06 10:54
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I almost always do schoolwork to Vivaldi, like I am now, like you (:>). Vivaldi has a good drive for keeping one awake without a lot of louds and softs to startle or disappear, and it doesn't require my concentration. I usually listen to the same CD for a whole school year and I never listen to it at home and I am never tired of it. The other recording is Murray Perahia playing Songs Without Words.It's all piano. I can accomplish a lot to that music, too and sing along as long as I don't opne your Blog!
Posted by: mom1 | 27.10.06 12:35