1. Yes, I sometimes write with music playing, if I need to be in a certain frame of mind, and the environment around me isn't helping set the mood.
2. Yes, most of my books had a certain playlist of songs I listened to while I was writing them. Unfortunately, I didn't write those playlists down. Which means I have to close my eyes really tight, and think back, and try to remember.
So, this week's Countdown to Alpha extra is the first in a series of "Excerpts Set To Music." Wherein I post an excerpt from a scene, along with the title of one of the songs that helped get/keep me in the proper mood to write that scene.
My Twitter followers voted in a last-minute battle, and the winning excerpt category was: Love/Pain. And seriously, if you think one's possible without the other in the Shifters world, you haven't been paying attention... ;)
And so I give you, from Alpha, love/pain:
I met Marc’s gaze, and my heart hurt so badly I wanted it to stop beating just to end the pain. “Marc, you know I love you…”
His eyes searched mine, his focus shifting from one to the other. Then he exhaled, and his anguish stole my breath. “I know that better than you seem to know it. We belong together, Faythe. I’ve known that since the moment you realized you could piss me off and make me smile in the same sentence, when you were fifteen years old. I know you better than anyone else ever will.”
Playlist for this scene includes:
I Alone - Live
This is one of my favorites from highschool. The entire Throwing Copper album, in fact. During the last half of my senior year, I worked at Subway, and one afternoon, the local radio DJ came in for a sandwich. I asked him to play "I Alone" for me, and he did! At the time, I thought that shoutout to "the sandwich chick" made me practically famous. ;-)
My favorite lines:
Your anchor is up, you've been swept away
And the greatest of teachers won't hesitate
To leave you there by yourself, chained to fate
I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you
Fear is not the end of this!
I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you
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13 comments:
Great mini-except! Amazing song to go along with it. Brings back memories for me as well. I'm going crazy until Alpha's release!!!!
OMG I asked for it and now I am regretting it! Poor Faythe and Marc. So much heartache in one tiny snippet. I want to ease their pain and make everything all better.
I must also say that if ever there were two meant to be, it is Faythe & Marc…by a mile. IMHO, anyway. lol
Thank you so much!!
This is killing me!
Just becase I am a Jace fan doesn't mean I don't feel for Marc... unless she just told March she doesn't pick him then I may have to feel a wee bit guilty about happy dancing on his misery.
I too like music when I am writing, you are right on that whole mood thing. Sometimes I accidently stumble away from where I inteded to be, because of a song chnage on my playlist ;)
I love that song! We must be the same age! That excerpt... *sigh* I can't wait to see how this gets resolved! I can't even imagine what is going to happen because I love both Marc and Jace... either way it is going to be heartbreaking, right?
Wow, I can see where that song would help you get in the mood for that part of the book. Great excerpt! October 1st really cannot get here fast enough.
Oh, like a punch in the gut! That was amazing, Rachel. Thanks so much for the excerpt!
Oh wow...what an excerpt! I want to cry. Oh please, please do NOT let this be Faythe telling Marc she is gonna be w/Jace (though, would you post something like that now?)!! Hoping this is just them talking, Marc trying to get Faythe to realize everything...agh!
I have to stop reading these teasers! I am going CRAZY!!! LOVED IT!
I was really worried about Alpha and also Shift (I haven't read it yet) because SPOILER FOR PREY I don't do really well with infidelity. But this excerpt gave me hope for these books. If Marc can still love Faythe maybe I can still too. She may not be my favorite character but I can at least see how her story finishes. I think I at least owe it to Marc to see why he would not give up on Faythe. I don't want this to be taken badly but I was kind of thinking about not buying the rest of the series but I will be now. Thank you for the excerpt :)
Brings back good memories for me. Music inspires and triggers saved memories. Simply great!
Faythe and Marc!!! Brilliant mini-excerpt.
Can't wait to read the whole book!
Very jealous that Cem has gotten to already.
Love the taste in music too. Listening to it now. Ha.
xxxx
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