As someone who sees herself as a writer and who plans to
major in Creative Writing, I thought I would like to do my fieldwork project
relating to this subject. In my musical background project I explained how
music was important to me in regards to my writing—that I almost always write
to the sound of songs, particularly tracks that come from the original scores
from films and television series. This had me wondering—do other writers do the
same thing?
On 8tracks, a music sharing website that
allows you to listen to music mixes that people created towards different
themes, there are many mixes that revolve around “music to listen to while
writing.” Also worth nothing, my Introduction to Creative Writing professor
stated that she listens to music when she writes while some of my fellow
classmates expressed that they could not, or at least could not with songs that
involved lyrics.
Therefore, what I propose to do for my fieldwork project
is an incorporation of music and creative writing. Basically, to collect the
information of whether or not most writers listen to music when they write, and
if they do, what kind? Does it depend on the type of writer that they are? What
I plan to do is collect data from my Introduction to Creative Writing class and
my Brevity: Short Stories class—in both of these classes the students focus on
writing prose, poetry, and memoir. And so, I would like to pass out a sheet of
paper around during these two classes, asking the students and the professors,
to jot down their names, the type of genre they mostly write in, if they listen
to music when they write, and what artists/genres they listen to including the
name of at least on song example. Then I plan to listen to each of the songs my
classmates and professors chose, reflect on whether or not listening or not
listening the music while writing depends on the type of writers, if certain
types of writers have similar tastes in music, etc. I might even try writing to
these songs myself as a test run.
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