A Writer's Soundtrack
There are a lot of neat, new ways to get your message across today, but I'm not talking social media. When I was younger, one dream job was to read/record novels (which would have been exclusively for the blind at that time). Today, anyone can listen to their favorite stories via LibriVox or some other website, but there are other places where you can read your own work or have someone else do it and offer it alongside your print version. This is too cool and something I'm seriously considering with my two novels. There are also a few websites that let you insert music in your eBook - but, they are domain sounds and not likely to be anything you really want added to help convey a mood or enhance a crucial scene. Most of us just create play lists and listen to them while we're writing. I have four media players on my laptop, but the one that is easiest -- Windows Media Player -- is also the one that is loaded with the most play lists. Some of the play list...