Speaking of fairies...
Lately, I've been thinking about how one branch of the arts can feed another. Famous examples abound. Mendelssohn wrote incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which includes a theme that, for me, is the very embodiment of fairies and their flitty, flighty movements. Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones created the Briar Rose Series of paintings based on the story of the Sleeping Beauty, first published in 1697 by Charles Perrault.
And how, you might wonder, does this pertain to my writing? Quite simply. My writing is better, stronger if I listen to music while I'm writing. Music can provide a focus. It can stir the emotions. Music is a driving force in my creative process.
That said, I thought I might share a couple of songs from my playlist for the recently completed novel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOZsckDTjhg&feature=related
I listened to Garbage quite a bit when writing one character in particular. Chloe, the crazy goth chick, has one foot in reality and the other...well, no one really knows where she goes when she steps out. And this Seether song got heavy play during the chapter in which our hero is involved in some nefarious activity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7br3d2eV8Q
Okay. You are a bright group, so I'm sure that by now, you've probably caught on that I really don't have much to say at this time about the writing process or the agent quest. So here's the skinny: I just sent a query letter to an agency today, so the waiting has begun again. I've gotten a lead on an anthology that may be the perfect place for my vampire short story and will be reworking it slightly to emphasize the theme of the anthology. And I'm writing a short story for another anthology in a round-robin with couple of friends.
That's my writing life at this moment.
