Your Novel’s Soundtrack

/ November 8, 2011/ mixtapes, music, prewriting, SFLN/ 2 comments

Soundtracks. We know about them. All movies and TV shows have. Yours truly owns a stupid amount of them. I have playlists for the gym, editing, and for various projects. I’m sure you have these as well. As I was getting ready for NaNoWriMo this year, I worked on coming up with a soundtrack for SFLN. Which is harder than

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Rob Zombie!

Ag2218/ July 7, 2011/ cartoons, films, music, Rob Zombie, zombies/ 2 comments

Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. Hello, everyone! Today’s post not only encompasses a zombie, but also fits in with my new segment– Zombie Thursdays presents– Miranda Talks About Other Scary Horror Stuff that isn’t Necessarily Related to Zombies, but that She Thinks You’ll Enjoy Too! (Working Title) If

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In the Memetime…

/ July 4, 2011/ meme, music, musings/ 0 comments

A couple of weeks ago, Alison Miller tagged me in this meme-type thing. Since it’s Monday and the majority of us are enjoying hot dogs, parades, and fireworks it’s perfect timing. Right? Right? Right. For once I’m blogging ahead of schedule and catching up on TV to boot, so I might as well warn you: sarcasm will be aplenty. 1)

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Stories in Song

/ June 7, 2011/ lists, music/ 6 comments

Steve Almond talks about song and how it’s a great way to study concise storytelling. When you think about it, it makes sense; songwriters have to do it in three minutes. Because I can, I want to share my top five* storytelling songs. As always, this isn’t in any particular order and subjected to change at my discretion. No Surprize

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