Music and Worldbuilding

Music is a big part of the writing process for me. While writing my series of sestinas, I must have listened to the mesmerising drone of Tony Conrad’s Faust hundreds of times. While writing The Desperate Ones I listened to Dub B sides, the ones without lyrics. I heard this track by Demdike Stare while listening to my favourite podcast, A Darker Shade of Pagan and it brought me back to the world of the novel in this immediate way.

Now that I’m writing out another novel world, one that’s very different from the dying tech of Pottersfield, I find myself listening to Sharron Kraus and Fursaxa and other dark folk, but that is the subject of another post.