I need to be able to access certain states in order to write well, and music helps me do this.
When writing I prefer silence, but as I type I am aware of the echo of the music from moments before it still hums inside me, the undertow to what I am writing. Music has always been the mirror of my moods, how I am feeling is externalized by the music I play, so it is fortunate that I have eclectic tastes. This week’s post is by wartime romance author Davina Blake (who also writes as Deborah Swift by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lena Horne, Kate Bush, George Gershwin, Larry Adler, Alison Moyet, Purcell, Led Zeppelin, Rachmaninoff, Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. ‘Music is the undertow to what I am writing’
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