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Does your taste in music reflect your writing style?

I tend to listen to dark music, especially when I'm "marinating" a new story. Most of my writing tends to be dark as well. Never too violent, graphic, or morbid, but dark nonetheless. I've been told that I create characters who haunt people when they're not reading.

This is perplexing to my friends and family, because if you met me in real life you'd never guess. I'm almost always in a good mood, very optimistic, strong in faith, and have a sharply sarcastic sense of humor. I love the colors pink and rose. I prefer to watch comedies on television.

But writing and music are the two facets of my life where I'm drawn to dark emotions.

Anyone else have a similar experience? Or am I all alone here?

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  • 9 years ago
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    Well, I have different "tastes" in music, so sometimes it does affect the way I write.

    When I listen to indie bands or classical music, I tend to write romance or some sort of "light" literature.

    When I listen to pop music or upbeat music, I tend to write funky or indie literature.

    :)

  • Ill
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Yes, of course your taste in music reflect your writing style. :o) Every trait you possess that your parents don't is all because of environmental factors in your every-day life. Surely the way you express yourself cannot be completely dependent on the music you listen to.

    And let's not forget the mind is a beautiful thing. Some people tends to have a positive outlook on life, yet have strange but wonderful obsessions inside that may seem shocking if expressed. It's just another way of saying that you're more complex than you look. :o)

  • 9 years ago

    yes, both all over the place with a few exceptions in my case

    music is extremely versatile, as much so as language, and can be used for special purposes, including healing and mood elevation

    when I was young and occasionally depressed at work I would arrive home, play music matching somber mood and then ratchet mood up by subsequent selections

    best ending Appalachian Spring and some Mozart (Clarinet Concerto in A sometimes)

    also Hymns, some of which ARE healing

    my selections too vast to list here though

    yeah sometimes Stravinsky or Моде́ст Петро́вич Мýсoргский no mood problem, just wanted something like that

    hmmmm, I was likely here first, so you're quite a bit like me, partner

    check it out, bear is all over the place, including far, far, far out there

    all around here too

    Source(s): but I'm more scientist than novelist albeit understanding you better than most by somewhat similar no two are exactly alike it seems nor do I usually write like e. e. cummings why am I doing this? IDK, just being different, all right hand only typing
  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    I can't say that I have ever experienced something like that, but I can say that I like to listen to songs with melancholy undertones, so bad things tend to happen to my characters. Ex: dying, being fatally wounded, losing a character they love, etc.

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