January 24, 2012 by L.E.R. Jenkins

A Writer’s Soundtrack

I’m one of those writers that likes to write to music. It helps me get in the mood for whatever scene I am writing and helps me concentrate.

Here is a list of my favorite songs/soundtracks to listen too while I write (and edit ).

(Current) Top 4 Soundtracks

1. How to Train You Dragon

Favorite songs

Forbidden Friendship

Romantic Flight

Where’s Hiccup?

2. Avatar

(didn’t like the movie, loved the music)

Favorite songs

Climbing Up Iknimaya – The Path To Heaven

Becoming One Of ”The People” Becoming One With Neytiri

Jake’s First Flight

Gathering All The Na’vi Clans For Battle

3. Two Steps from Hell: Invincible

Favorite songs

Heart of Courage

Protectors of Earth

4. Last of the Mohicans

(very sad movie, awesome soundtrack)

Favorite songs

River Walk and Discovery

Pieces of a Story

Others

Pirates of the Caribbean: Cures of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Knight and Day

Lord of the Rings (all three)

Doctor Who: Series 2, 4, 5 & 6

Master and Commander

Yeah, I listen to allot of music. Funny thing is, when I get into the zone, I don’t hear it at all. I’ll usually miss most of what I’m listening to and have to start it all over again.

We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.
~J.R.R. Tolkien

"The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed."
~J.R.R. Tolkien

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
~Arthur Polotnik

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"There are forms of insanity that condemn people to hear voices against their will, but as writers we invite ourselves to hear voices without relinquishing our hold on reality or our right to control."
~Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway

Christians have sometimes been suspicious of stories, because they really can influence you. If you read the Twilight novels once a month for a year, I think you'd be a different human afterward—and not a sparkly one.
~Nate Wilson

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