In Billy Mernit’s latest post on Living the Romantic Comedy, he talks about how many writers rely on music to get their writing groove on. Mernit writes:
Caffeine. Alcohol. A toke, a toot. Everyone’s got their favorite stimulant, but when it comes to working on a draft, the overwhelming drug of choice for most writers I know is music.
Four screenwriters interviewed in Karl Iglesias’s fine and useful book, The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters talk of their dependence on music as muse: Ron Bass likes to write to jazz; Steven DeSouza uses soundtracks from movies similar to the genre he’s writing in; Scott Rosenberg goes for rock’n’roll; Nicholas Kazan prefers Gregorian chant (“I need something constant and neutral. I find it’s a wonderful aid that sort of massages the right hemisphere of my brain”).
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