What inspires me to write

Music! That's right I have a few links to music I have listened to while I have been writing...and some of it might shock you.

One is from the Anime Spirited Away: One Summer's Day

I have always been a fan of Joe Hisaishi and a fan of John Williams, but when I was writing my first opening to the Dragon's Library, I was mostly listening to this song because when I was a thinking about all the things it was just so easy to turn on a sound track on youtube and go from there.

Another favorite is from various piano sets, this is a combination of different songs, this is called: Best Relaxing Piano Studio Ghibli Collection 2016

If you ever ask me to post more music, I will considering I'm a huge fan of piano music and also love relaxing type of music.

Another favorite is Stunning Studio Ghibli Soundtracks (No Vocals) and it has always been inspiring to me as a writer. I don't know why I get so inspired with music from pieces from Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and many more because they are just so beautiful.

I have always wished I could have continued to play piano, I was playing that as a child and went onto play the flute, I don't know why I never continued, I still have my flute down in my basement in hiding because I always felt scared of what people would say if I continued.

As I continue to write these pages of the journal, I think of all the music I have listened to while producing my own works. I would say the best is The Wind Forest from My Neighbor Totoro, it is one of the most amazing. It makes me think of Dreselia's mansion deep in Brook End's Forest.

I have yet to think of a soundtrack of the world outside of Dreselia's or even his home world because I have not come up with that so far. All of which have been the world of which Belinda and Dreselia are in presently, some of it isn't so normal yet so mundane.

As I write now, I'm always thinking of all the great musicals I have listened to and other great pieces that could be used to inspire my world.

Another great sound track that i have never really considered while I was writing actually is quite old, it is called Night on the Galactic Railroad, the piece is called Temo Finale. One of the writers that inspired me was Kenji Miyazawa, who was a writer in Japan back before World War II who actually wanted to come to the US even when his father did not like that idea.

While I was writing the interaction between Belsom and Dreselia this was always playing in my mind considering how the high elf acts, he reminds me of being a big like Giovanni from the story Night on the Galactic Railroad, but not so much. I was always going back and forth in my mind what would the two be discussing into the night and this is what I came up with while listening to this sound track.

The fact that music has a great deal to do with what I like to write about does help me sort out my issues with some writing. The fact I can go from Studio Ghibli to Night on the Galactic Railroad, then onto some other soundtracks such as Enya and so forth for the story I'm building.