Video game music is almost as good as movie soundtracks at evoking a sense of scene for me. They’re always filled with emotion and pictures, which makes them very easy to match to scenes while writing. Today’s piece of music is one of my favourite writing songs. While it does contain lyrics, they are surprisingly non-distracting. This week’s writing music is an amazing...
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Over the past couple of months, I have been studying poetry as part of my university course. Now I would be the first to admit that I’m not that good at writing poetry. My poems range in quality from horrendous to merely terrible. However, I do enjoyed reading and analysing poems. Their imagery, creative metaphors, and often elegant language have a strange appeal....
I am a big fan of Disney movies, and especially of the amazing music in those films. I shared a few of my favourite Disney songs in Writing Music posts last year, which you can find here, here and here. Today’s piece is another great Disney song. This time it’s The Circle of Life from The Lion King. However, this isn’t the ordinary...
It’s been a while since I last joined in with the Top Ten Tuesday linkup, which is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. So it’s more than time for me to share some of the books I’ve been reading. This week’s subject is a freebie, so even though it’s halfway through January already, I thought I’d recap my...
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While surfing through YouTube this week, on the prowl for great new music to share with you all, I stumbled upon a real gem of a song. Most people have heard Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker Suite at least once in their lives. This version, performed by the talented Pentatonix, is sung acapella, and it is, in one word,...
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