Tuesday Tips: Music

This is a very subjective tip.

I really enjoy listening to music when I write.

In fact, if I know I am going to be writing an emotional scene I will find a piece of music that conveys that emotion.

Here is a secret.

My very first novel had the working title of FALLING. I was advised by an author I know that I should go to Amazon and search for that title in BOOKS. There were hundreds of books that already had the title FALLING and most were trashy romances.

Then one day I heard the song Into Dust by Mazzy Star. The first words of the song were STILL FALLING...