I noticed that many writers create playlists related to books they’re writing. I don’t know how many of them actually listen to it while they write, but I know that I can’t. I get too caught up and easily distracted by the song. Vocal or instrumental.

The closest I’ve come to being able to do it is by listening to K-pop when I write. Foreign language, I don’t know what they’re singing about, and I’ve managed to concentrate on writing (for the most part, until I decide I need to know what they’re singing about).

But I do have a playlist for one of the current books I’m working on. I don’t listen to it while writing; it’s more of a mood. To me, the songs represent the characters and the mood of the world I’m writing about.

I guess I’m writing to all of you about this because I really didn’t have any songs to represent the main book my brain won’t let me stop thinking of until last night. Quite by accident, on YouTube, I found a short by an artist, looked at their YouTube site, and went to my Apple Music to check if they were there. They were.

While I don’t care for some of the songs (not a condemnation, just simply don’t like them), the majority of them spoke to that storyline in my head. The lyrics. The arrangement of the song. It also spoke to the music person in me.

A very happy incident while procrastinating. Now I just need to stop procrastinating and write.

Have you ever had a happy little accident like this?

Certainly not a bad thing to happen. Sometimes good can happen.