This month we're talking about the bar world. For this Monday, I'm thinking about music that tells stories you might hear in a bar, with or without the beat behind it. After all, Tweety isn't our only unreliable narrator... What if short moments that make or don't make the main story are inspired by song … Continue reading Music Monday Tall Tales
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Monday Music Lessons
What with the prior week on Woods, and this week's visual post, it feels like a good Monday to talk about themes and lessons with music. I listen to lyrics, and sometimes they sound like elevator pitches of the larger story, which is why Red Letters is so intertwined. If you are curious, I do … Continue reading Monday Music Lessons
Backstage Red Letters – Woods Musically Before The Band
In the first book, one of the characters we meet is Woods. Part of his journey is his career path. He's a Main Male Character, and there's this band element to his goals. But before the good started to happen to him? Woods was ready to give it all up. He thought he gave it … Continue reading Backstage Red Letters – Woods Musically Before The Band
Heating Up Music Monday
This playlist mixes both the Hot Soulful Nights and the Scorching Red Letters vibes. If pictures on a mood board can tell one story, and the fiction Friday tells it a different way... Today I can try to let you into my head for another version of the writing process. Because I love a good … Continue reading Heating Up Music Monday
Sinful Music Monday
Sinful Summer theme continues into this playlist. I'm thinking flirty dirty heat, innuendo spoiling treats, suggested sins to be had since it's a sweaty season anyway.... And what playlist could I possibly make for sinful sensations without including the very musician that when I see them, I see Woods? That's Woods, our main male, our … Continue reading Sinful Music Monday
Daring Music Monday
Hi all, aside from the usual writing related music, I am keeping myself accountable. I'm querying out the book again this week. So, not only is it daring music for my characters, it's music to dare me to do it too. Even if I totally talk about them instead... There have been times I have … Continue reading Daring Music Monday
Romanticizng a Rumba for Masterclass Music Monday
Final scene playlist. we've been through the tension, anger, memory and disregard so far. It's time for the softer parts. Their history of passionate love. Think bodies that remember how to rumba, how this word or touch breaks walls that they've been fighting through in the past two playlists. Think about those stares that don't … Continue reading Romanticizng a Rumba for Masterclass Music Monday
Truthful Tango Masterclass Music Monday
With today's playlist, I'm listing tangos with their truths. Some even blend his rock elements into her desires, proving that there was a time these characters made beautiful music once... So, how do you hold out from emotionally bleeding your truths long enough for the other person to bleed theirs? And also, how do you … Continue reading Truthful Tango Masterclass Music Monday
Masterclass Paso Doble for Music Monday
Paso Doble is all about drama, a sense of confidence or power, and being strong enough to take on a bull (or other challenges.) So, what kind of playlist do you pull together for the rockstar and the queen who's trying to pretend she's icy? How do you survive appels that feel more like getting … Continue reading Masterclass Paso Doble for Music Monday
Music Monday for a Moves Masterclass – Beginners
So, I am working on a scene. It's tension, history, anger, passionate love, memory and disregard all in one. If it were dances seen on dance shows, it's got that spicy Latin energy. Like how a tango or a rumba tell stories without words? This scene? Has that in it. It also has all the … Continue reading Music Monday for a Moves Masterclass – Beginners
A Lady of Mind's Observations 