An Amazing Tool That Can Help You with Your Writing

Music can help you to exercise harder, to learn more vocabulary words, to come up with more ideas, to be more social and friendly, to identify and deal with your feelings, and now, to write.

A lot of people tell me that whenever music is playing they can’t concentrate enough to write effectively; they always get too lost in the music. I was once like this too, but you can be trained to multi-task or at least have the music ‘on the back burner’ so to speak. It’s amazing the effects that will be seen in your writing if you can manage this.

With the write music in the background, you can intensify the mood of your writing. Why? Because when an average person listens to music, whatever type it is makes them feel the way it sounds. For instance, angry music with angry words and a rocking track can get a person slightly agitated for no reason, and sad sounding music can dull ones mood. Casual, more gentle music makes for a great lighter setting, while more antsy music can raise a persons anxiety. When you truly feel what you’re writing, it’s going to come across much better.

But you can’t just throw in your favorite mix and expect that to work for you. You have to do just a little bit of work yourself to make this work right. If you have a window’s media player or a winap (or any other form of computer media player for that matter), you can make and name specific playlists. Just sort out all of  your music by how it makes you feel and create as many playlists as you want or need.

For instance, take all the songs that remind you of your significant other and label the list ‘Romantic Mood List’ and all the things you would listen to if he/she broke up with you and label that ‘Angry/Sad Mood List’ depending on how you would feel immediately.

The key to making this work though is to listen to the ‘mood list’ that matches the desired mood of your writing piece, changing as often as necessary. About to write a butt-kicking scene? Put on your edgy music. Romantic scene? Love songs. Funny scene? Listen to Weird Al in the background. Once it’s written, turn the music off and proofread it fifteen minutes later. You’ll be amazed and impressed with yourself.