Blah, chase scenes.
Blah blah death.
NaNo's going okay...
No one cares...
um...
I like Dracula Untold's soundtrack. Tis nice for writing.
(prologue)
(janissary attack)
(this life and the next)
What's nice about epic instrumental soundtracks for writing is that they are always changing. And they were made for movies, so you can always expect to find something good for a scene. Want something haunting and sad? "This Life and the Next" is pretty sad, and then segues into epic. Want some dark chanting stuff? The prologue's great.
Video game soundtracks can also work for this too. I really like stuff from Assassin's Creed for my fantasy writings.
(city of rome - ac3)
(ezio's family - ac2)
Especially if you know the soundtrack and what all happened when such-and-such song played and what for (or merely why the title-music is paired that way) then it can cause you to remember things from the source material and help you express and create the feelings you want to inspire in those scenes.
If I want to write a bittersweet nostalgia scene, I go to Ezio's Family from Assassin's Creed 2 because I know it's from/about when he was making promises with his brothers and giving his sister dating advice and helping his mom and talking to his dad before they were hanged and raped and kicked out of their home.
Yay... nostalgia...
Or, make your own soundtrack. I always listen to music when I roleplay, and that song I mentioned before, "Cold" by Jorge Mendez will always bring on the feels from when Kieran and Adrian were fighting and dying all over Were Myths. So that is on my Where Dreams Are Reality soundtrack, along with these old "theme songs" for my characters from way back when. Good old 2000s...
Dem feels...
Soundtracks rule!
1:51
Wow.
So, Garnet's chapter is becoming my longest chapter so far. It's over 7000 words, and I skipped a few scenes to get to the fun stuff. Fun stuff isn't over. So it should hit or go over 10,000 words. My other three chapters, so far, are at:
Orec- 9663
Kah- 8922
Hessir- 6089
Garnet is at 7956.
Hessir and Garnet's chapters are not finished. Orec's is actually missing a scene. Kah's might actually be scrapped entirely and he may be given a new POV chapter. I don't know. I love Kah and like his chapter, but not together or in this book. UGH!
But that's for editing. I need those 8922 words for my NaNo count...
And those chapters are also not really accurate. I constantly go back and edit and add and move around to give each chapter a decent tie-in and flow with the others. So... if the numbers seem off, it's cause they are. I don't pay uber close attention to the numbers right now cause NANO MUST HAPPEN!
I will definitely put up exact chapter counts after NaNo. Just for funsies.
And if you were wondering, yes, this book sucks and these chapters are a friggin BEATCH to write >. >
Well, the story, I think, is good. Just that getting it out the way I want to without confusing the hell out of my readers is what sucks because it's SO HARD!
ALL my characters are named, even the little side ones and minor ones, and I want to introduce them all, but no. I don't want you all to get your heads twisted backwards and upside down by the million names that you would have to memorize. This is a big book that spans a lot of characters. It's definitely more meticulous and fine tuned with the details than anything I have ever written. So, yes, I will spare you the issue of memorizing a million characters.
A lot of characters/ideas/etc that I wanted in this book grew to sizes too big to fit in this novel, so they will be used in other works. I mentioned that prince and his brother? yes, they are going back to their original book for later. Also, Finnick de Casselar and the two or three people associated with him are going to their own book (most likely). Along with a bunch of other unnamed/unmentioned concepts and characters.
2:16
So... soundtracks... again...
After not so much digging, I found out that Ramin Djawadi does the soundtrack to Game of Thrones. I knew he did the main theme, but I guess I just forgot about that or something...
Ramin Djawadi and Bear McCreary are my two favorite soundtrack artists. They use lots of different instruments and experiment with a lot of different types of sounds to bring out different feelings. (too many times I used 'different' in one sentence)
Ramin Djawadi did Game of Thrones, Dracula Untold, Prison Break, Red Dawn (new movie), and other stuff.
Bear McCreary did the new Battlestar Galactica, Black Sails, Walking Dead, and some other awesome stuff.
Not that I watch all the shows/movies they do soundtracks for, but I do listen to their soundtracks even if the movie was not that great (ie: Red Dawn).
They are both amazing, amazing composers who deserve more cred. Check out some of their stuff sometime, especially when doing a writing session. Especially since they did TV soundtracks, they're bound to have a lot of different sounds to get you into your scenes. And best yet, most of their stuff is on spotify. They got four whole GoT albums there.
One of the little things I love in McCreary's work is his use of TONS of random instruments from all over the world that you probably never heard of. You can notice some in the above song, Kara Remembers, but the other song that is my favorite is "Gaedi's Lament", which uses some kind of instrument around 1:06 that makes me want to cry no matter what. (I've been told it's the 'duduk', but I'm not so sure...)
YAY! More soundtracks! Consider adding some of these artist's works to your playlists when you novel/rp/do stuff.
3:17
I hit 30083 words! It ended so... ugh. Awesome.
Dem feels.
Need to go back and write in the scenes I skipped. Then probably editing some stuff in the 'fun' part of Garnet's chapter to match up with what I write in. Whee! But not till tomorrow. Now is sleepy time with snuggly kitten.
3:45
Squee!
Fangirl moment!
You can skip this part if ya like...
So I randomly youtubed Mamoru Miyano, the guy whose voice I wanna friggin marry. And wow, he is adorable in real life.
Like, I clicked on a video of him laughing.
Laughing.
Weird...
But his laugh is so adorable. It makes me laugh.
They're speaking in Japanese, but the guy is talking to him, and Mamoru bursts out laughing, and the other guy just stands there with this whole, "I know, right?" kind of attitude... or something...
I don't speak Japanese...
He's also a singer, and he has a really nice voice ^^ Not my style of music, personally, but it's still very good.
1:51
Wow.
So, Garnet's chapter is becoming my longest chapter so far. It's over 7000 words, and I skipped a few scenes to get to the fun stuff. Fun stuff isn't over. So it should hit or go over 10,000 words. My other three chapters, so far, are at:
Orec- 9663
Kah- 8922
Hessir- 6089
Garnet is at 7956.
Hessir and Garnet's chapters are not finished. Orec's is actually missing a scene. Kah's might actually be scrapped entirely and he may be given a new POV chapter. I don't know. I love Kah and like his chapter, but not together or in this book. UGH!
But that's for editing. I need those 8922 words for my NaNo count...
And those chapters are also not really accurate. I constantly go back and edit and add and move around to give each chapter a decent tie-in and flow with the others. So... if the numbers seem off, it's cause they are. I don't pay uber close attention to the numbers right now cause NANO MUST HAPPEN!
I will definitely put up exact chapter counts after NaNo. Just for funsies.
And if you were wondering, yes, this book sucks and these chapters are a friggin BEATCH to write >. >
Well, the story, I think, is good. Just that getting it out the way I want to without confusing the hell out of my readers is what sucks because it's SO HARD!
ALL my characters are named, even the little side ones and minor ones, and I want to introduce them all, but no. I don't want you all to get your heads twisted backwards and upside down by the million names that you would have to memorize. This is a big book that spans a lot of characters. It's definitely more meticulous and fine tuned with the details than anything I have ever written. So, yes, I will spare you the issue of memorizing a million characters.
A lot of characters/ideas/etc that I wanted in this book grew to sizes too big to fit in this novel, so they will be used in other works. I mentioned that prince and his brother? yes, they are going back to their original book for later. Also, Finnick de Casselar and the two or three people associated with him are going to their own book (most likely). Along with a bunch of other unnamed/unmentioned concepts and characters.
2:16
So... soundtracks... again...
After not so much digging, I found out that Ramin Djawadi does the soundtrack to Game of Thrones. I knew he did the main theme, but I guess I just forgot about that or something...
Ramin Djawadi and Bear McCreary are my two favorite soundtrack artists. They use lots of different instruments and experiment with a lot of different types of sounds to bring out different feelings. (too many times I used 'different' in one sentence)
Ramin Djawadi did Game of Thrones, Dracula Untold, Prison Break, Red Dawn (new movie), and other stuff.
Bear McCreary did the new Battlestar Galactica, Black Sails, Walking Dead, and some other awesome stuff.
Not that I watch all the shows/movies they do soundtracks for, but I do listen to their soundtracks even if the movie was not that great (ie: Red Dawn).
They are both amazing, amazing composers who deserve more cred. Check out some of their stuff sometime, especially when doing a writing session. Especially since they did TV soundtracks, they're bound to have a lot of different sounds to get you into your scenes. And best yet, most of their stuff is on spotify. They got four whole GoT albums there.
Ramin Djawadi - "Dark Wings, Dark Words"
Bear McCreary - "Kara Remembers/All Along the Watchtower"
Gaedi's Lament Instrumental
(the actual Gaedi's Lament sounds VERY VERY different. They're like two whole different songs.)
YAY! More soundtracks! Consider adding some of these artist's works to your playlists when you novel/rp/do stuff.
3:17
I hit 30083 words! It ended so... ugh. Awesome.
Dem feels.
Need to go back and write in the scenes I skipped. Then probably editing some stuff in the 'fun' part of Garnet's chapter to match up with what I write in. Whee! But not till tomorrow. Now is sleepy time with snuggly kitten.
3:45
Squee!
Fangirl moment!
You can skip this part if ya like...
So I randomly youtubed Mamoru Miyano, the guy whose voice I wanna friggin marry. And wow, he is adorable in real life.
Like, I clicked on a video of him laughing.
Laughing.
Weird...
But his laugh is so adorable. It makes me laugh.
They're speaking in Japanese, but the guy is talking to him, and Mamoru bursts out laughing, and the other guy just stands there with this whole, "I know, right?" kind of attitude... or something...
I don't speak Japanese...
Good Lord, that laugh... and he's always like, dying in a corner whenever he laughs. Like it's not just "hah, lol" it's more like "OMFG LOOOOOOOL ROFL ROFLMAO!!!"
He's also a singer, and he has a really nice voice ^^ Not my style of music, personally, but it's still very good.
(only decent vid I could find...)
So yes, just a bit of a fangirl moment.
And I'm well aware that this guy is married and 31, but that don't mean Kuro and Kiba and Zero are *wink wink*
wink
ALRIGHT! END FANGIRLING!!!!!
Back to serious biz...
very serious biz...
3:56
Is it just me, or are there a ton of vids in this blogpost...? o.O
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