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What Gets You in the Mood?
How do you get in the mood?
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I just don’t want to. Others, I can’t wait to jump right in.
Writing. I’m talking about writing.
So many of my story and character ideas come from dreams so a lot of times I’m skipping any morning routine I pretend to follow to get right to my laptop.
This morning I kept my morning routine but threw on a different playlist. I like fun electronica, something that’ll make breakfast a dance party. This morning, I felt like I needed to get ready for war. I’m two days from my book deadline, so uber-productivity is a must.
Cue Music
Rather than the Lorde station, or Electronic Cardio that’s my go-to, I went with ‘Do You Even Lift Bro‘ a great playlist I typically use when I go to the gym. Since I don’t go to the gym (I workout at home) it’s been a little while since I’ve put this one on. Filled with 90’s hard rock and metal, it definitely put me in the mood to beat out some words (too soon?). Let’s be real, Pantera’s Strength Beyond Strength will get anyone in the mood to kick some @ss.
Honestly…
Usually, my writing playlist, filled with video game scores such as Halo and Skyrim, mixed with a little chill out station, is enough to get me in the zone. Give me a pair of headphones and some music streaming service, and I’m good to go. I don’t even need a writing implement. I’ll daydream my stories to death until I get the opportunity to write them down. Today, I needed a little something extra.
How do you align with your muse?
What tool’s do you absolutely HAVE TO HAVE to be productive? Any ideas of what I’m missing out on? How can I get more in touch with inspiration? Tell me in the comments 🙂
(My streaming service of choice is currently Amazon Prime Music. I pay for prime, I figured I might as well utilize all it gives me. Sorry Pandora.)
Photo by Enoch Appiah Jr. on Unsplash
Avoidance as a Motivator
The Business of Art
Whatever thing you create, sculptures, bath toys, book marks, outfits for lizards, it has to be seen; you somehow have to let people, the more the better, know that you made that thing.
Learning the Business
There are so many webinar’s and books and classes and YouTube videos on how to effectively create marketing strategies to make money on your creation. I’ve sat through many. I’ve spent a little bit of money on a few, but still, I’m daunted by it.
I attribute this intimidation of the business side of my craft for the reason I finally finished one of my products. While I should have been mapping out a strategy for pre-sales, I was editing. Sure, editing was a thing that needed to be done, but in my allotted time for business, I was doing something else.
Avoidance a Motivator
I’m sure I should be researching marketing while I wrote this post. A lot of “learn as you go” seems real. Even the “maps” and “tools” anyone can give still comes down to us creating copy that grabs attention. As a writer, I’d hope that come naturally, but if you’ve ever read one of my book synopsis’ you might see that my knack for summing up still needs work.
Basically, I have nothing more to say but I don’t feel like figuring out ads…
So, what’s for dinner? Should we stay in, or go out?
………………….Netflix anyone?
Photo by Tonny Tran on Unsplash
Tear It From My Soul
Beware: Rant ahead
Gah! These doubt demons are killing me today! Editing book three… there’s quite a step outside the line of what the story has been so far… I feel like it’s true to the journey… but I know people are going to have some issues…
I’m trying not to worry about it. I’m trying to just write it as I felt it; write it down the path I mapped out from the beginning. I really love the second half of this book- the “after” this that has me screaming inside my head. I actually really like the parts that have me nervous. It’s crazy how much this “outside observer,” the knowledge that there will be readers is screwing with my head on this one.
Whew! This is stressful…… but I’m going to keep on keeping on.
Book Two has Released!
Book Two on The Fool’s Path is here!
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Author C.M. Martens 