Music for Novel Writing: a NaNoWriMo Mixtape Special
NaNoWriMo—Month of creative commitment-slash-torture! Month of antisocial weekends in stale-smelling, coffee stained pyjamas! Month of self-abnegation and self-praise! MONTH OF GENIUS!—is almost over....
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DECEMBER MIX by Mishka Shubaly
Roll Over, It’s Xmas December and its inevitable culmination in Christmas has not historically been a particularly happy time for me, ever since I was seven and got Snake Mountain for Christmas. I...
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JANUARY MIX by Justin Taylor
Long-Winded I had a lot of ideas about how to approach this project—none of them very good. I thought about a “winter” mix, but this has been an eerily easy winter, at least in Brooklyn. (Last week, at...
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FEBRUARY MIX by Sam Pink
On February 14, Electric Literature will release Sam Pink’s new novel, Rontel, which Tao Lin calls, “the funniest book I’ve ever read.” Pre-order the eBook now and Sam Pink will sext you on...
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MARCH MIX by Beach Sloth
You are Something Special I was useless as a child. I was the blankest of slates. Nobody knew what to do with me. I lived a ‘bookmarker’ life where I planned on following up later on my own life to...
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APRIL MIX by Karolina Waclawiak
Wanderers I’m big on daydreaming and late-night escape plans. These are songs I listen to often and they all have a late-winter tinge of melancholy and latent aggression. I listen to the same songs...
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MAY MIX by Kendra Grant Malone & Matthew Savoca
The Incongruent Mix We like to play this game when we’re on the train or in the car on a long ride where we try to surprise the other person by playing songs that are really different from each other....
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JUNE MIX by Ben Loory
MELVINS 101 I like the Melvins, and so should you. So here are some of their songs. I’m no good at writing about music, though, so I just jotted down some things I remember from different grades in...
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JULY MIX by Elizabeth Ellen
ugly on the inside (the summer remix) I have always been a quiet person. Shy. Meek. Non-threatening. I was an only child. My personality fit well with my surroundings. I taught the adults in my life...
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AUGUST MIX by Ken Baumann
I’VE SWALLOWED MY REED I didn’t listen to music while writing Solip. I found its voice too singsongy, too gross, too tremulous on its own. But I discovered some music outside that voice’s time with...
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