I was very excited to be contacted by David at Largeheartedboy.com. He asked me to write up a playlist for Numb. It was an interesting and more-difficult-than-I-thought-it-would-be experience. In the end, I'm very happy with the list of songs I came up with, and hope it gives readers another way into the book.
A sample from David's site:
In his own words, here is Sean Ferrell's Book Notes music playlist for his debut novel, Numb:
Music both motivates and shapes my fiction. It's known that listening to music that moves you, regardless of the type of music, can alter our emotional state. More than that, I use Pavlovian conditioning to jump-start myself: certain pieces of music make my writing-brain start drooling. It is one of the ways I can take myself from a listless, out-of-writing-shape mindset and into a productive state of mind. And with playlists easily created and edited on the go, I find myself shaping characters and scenes in my iPod before they're in my laptop.
Published on November 17, 2010 21:49