What is this, Sap Day?

[veronica_rich]

Seriously. I have Pandora on at work as I finish up some publishing, to listen to some Foreigner, and it's like ... Cheesy Songs For Your OTP, 80s Hair Edition. Foreigner "I Don't Wanna Live Without You," REO "I Can't Fight This Feeling," Def Leppard's "Bringin' On The Heartbreak," etc. etc. (broken up occasionally by Lynrd Skynrd and The Cars).

I hate, hate songfic on principle, although listening to songs does help me come up with ideas for stories sometimes (not as often as it used to, but still sometimes). I just can't use the lyrics and storyline in MY stories, if that makes sense. But yeah, listening to even the cheese I listed above, I could come up with something. Dammit.

Any of you other writers have Music Of Choice for fanfic or original fiction? I take from a little of everything I like - note that this does not mean ALL MUSIC, since there's no way I could know all music out there. Plus, being American, I suspect I am woefully undersupplied with types of music. But I digress from my question ...?

Comments

[the-dala.livejournal.com]

I can't write to music, or really to anything but total silence, heh. But I'll crib titles from damn near anything, from the Beatles to Flogging Molly to Taylor Swift. It's generally a case of the lyric fitting the completed story rather than inspiring it.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Everybody's got their own method, man. ;-)