This is K.M. Island.

and you are listening to the 284th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast. I find myself getting pickier about what music I listen to while

writing. Movie soundtracks have always been, and still are my favorite writing music of choice.

I love the dramatic scope, usually the louder the better.

Nothing beats the gladiator soundtrack for getting my fingers flying over the keyboard.

Being the O. C.D. person that I am,

I've always just cycled through my soundtrack library

in alphabetic order.

I never chose music to suit whatever scene I was writing. I just let the music take me in interesting places.

Writing battle scenes to love songs or love scenes to battle songs always brings out interesting aspects but this time around I find

myself wanting to pick more mood music to guide my writing it might have been the

day I tried to write a regency ball scene to an action movie

soundtrack that finally changed my mind.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is why

Avalanche's Wolves and Lightning Storms aren't a good way to begin your book.

It cautions against opening with a type of conflict that might initially

seem a good idea and it shows you how to figure out the right way to begin your book.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you enjoyed

this week's podcast entitled for writers on the verge of writing spectacularly

complex characters. The most ironic thing

about complex characters in fiction is that the essence of what makes them so

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