{"id":5588,"date":"2011-08-10T13:29:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T19:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5588"},"modified":"2011-08-10T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T23:43:07","slug":"soundtrack-for-an-untitled-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/soundtrack-for-an-untitled-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack for an untitled book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/new_rigel_ost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5589\" title=\"new_rigel_ost\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/new_rigel_ost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/new_rigel_ost.jpg 335w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/new_rigel_ost-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/new_rigel_ost-140x104.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve got this great idea for a novel, with a rough plot outline, an <em>awesome<\/em>\u00a0ending, setting and characters all worked out, even the soundtrack&#8211;but no title.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy making soundtracks for my novels, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve made one <em>before<\/em>\u00a0writing the first draft. \u00a0Usually, my first drafts are so all over the place that I end up hating whatever music I try to associate with my work&#8211;that, or the feel of the book ends up being so different from the feel of the soundtrack that I just have to abandon it.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of all this, I couldn&#8217;t really help myself from putting together a playlist for my next big project, a Gaia Nova novel combining characters from <em>Bringing Stella Home<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Desert Stars<\/em>. \u00a0Here it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cjet8UDvlEU\">The Ones We Left Behind (Original Mix)<\/a> &#8212; Tenishia<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rM9axKW4J4s\" target=\"_blank\">Mega Man 8: Above the Clouds (ocremix)<\/a> &#8212; Jewbei<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qmbgCBZ86z4\" target=\"_blank\">You&#8217;re Not Alone<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; katethegreat19<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H-f4dYfi4vM\" target=\"_blank\">Castle Rock (Chronotorious)<\/a> &#8212; Bad Dudes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VqHDTe_KHKA\" target=\"_blank\">Streets of Rage: Bare Knuckle Blitz (ocremix)<\/a> &#8212; Willrock<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KuqFPBqXGbE\" target=\"_blank\">Connected<\/a> &#8212; Hoobastank<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bv66O1aGrjI\" target=\"_blank\">Nocturne<\/a> &#8212; Daft Punk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eK1hxc_p7cM\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Red Alert (Precursors)<\/a> &#8212; Jouni Airaksinen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WpexAP02du0\" target=\"_blank\">Rockin&#8217; on Heaven&#8217;s Door (Chronotorious)<\/a> &#8212; Bad Dudes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I7t4PRZedxQ&amp;ob=av2e\" target=\"_blank\">The Ones We Left Behind (Tenishia Burnout Mix)<\/a> &#8212; Tenishia<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phrakture.bandcamp.com\/track\/parasomnia-feat-clandestine\" target=\"_blank\">Parasomnia feat. Clandestine (Initiate Dream Sequence)<\/a> &#8212; Phrakture<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oB0fLQXoCQU\" target=\"_blank\">Anumati<\/a> &#8212; E.S. Posthumus<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tj_v6RvGMh4\" target=\"_blank\">Flynn Lives<\/a> &#8212; Daft Punk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O-fdkZLDL4Y\" target=\"_blank\">Sunrise<\/a> &#8212; Daft Punk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For me, soundtracks are all about the emotion that a story evokes. \u00a0I&#8217;m going for a tense and gritty feel, with heart-rending losses and soul-crushing defeats interspersed with poignant moments of personal triumph.<\/p>\n<p>The really cool thing is that the soundtrack has helped me out a ton with the outlining process. \u00a0I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time in the past month hiking in the mountains around Provo, just listening to music and thinking about this story. \u00a0Whenever I put on the soundtrack, something would click and I&#8217;d see exactly what the story needed. \u00a0I kid you not, all of the plot twists and big reveals came to me while listening to this music.<\/p>\n<p>Now if only I could come up with a title&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got this great idea for a novel, with a rough plot outline, an awesome\u00a0ending, setting and characters all worked out, even the soundtrack&#8211;but no title. I enjoy making soundtracks for my novels, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve made one before\u00a0writing the first draft. \u00a0Usually, my first drafts are so all over the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/soundtrack-for-an-untitled-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soundtrack for an untitled book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,44,569],"tags":[478,607,606,150,73,155,605,159,566,251],"class_list":["post-5588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-ds","category-sbg","tag-daft-punk","tag-e-s-posthumus","tag-emotion","tag-music","tag-planning","tag-rough-drafts","tag-soundtracks","tag-tragedy","tag-trance","tag-writing-habits","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1s8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5588"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5815,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions\/5815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}