Yesterday

openly saying what is on my mind has never been easy. I used to keep journals when I was younger. But haven't had one since I was 13/14.
So, this experience could get awkward lol.

Yesterday I was working on rewriting Dark, since I received so much good, helpful feedback from people on here.
Well, my best friend was at work, and started texting me because it was extremely slow and boring. (she is a bartender)
So, I suggested I come just sit up there with her, I could bring my laptop, continue working, maybe have a glass of wine and chit chat.
She loved the idea of course lol.
Sitting at the bar, chatting and trying to continue my work. My mind was not focused on the task at hand. It was bothering me a bit, but I didn't focus on it too much. I had her read what I had rewritten on Dark. she seemed to like it more, than the previous version.
Long story short, I am hearing all kinds of Rock on the Jukebox. Some of it I knew, some of it I did not, but I realized that it was messing with my creative flow.
I don't know if anyone else is like this or not. However, I tend to always have music playing, especially when I am writing. I am not sure why, but it just helps me focus my mind on the story. Odd, I am sure. I could not focus because the Rock music was messing with my flow.
Because, as if I am not odd enough already, Classical music is the genre that influences my creative flow the most.
It's very specific though I have to either listen to Wagner " Ride of the Valkyries" or Vivaldi: The Four Seasons.
I do not know what it is about these in particular. They just make me feel. Just feel more connected. I have background with being a part of an orchestra. So, it takes me back too, and yeah, I just feel all this when I am listening to it, and I think I do some of my better work with that.

Anyway, the Rock music on the jukebox was not doing it for me. I laugh at this though, because music does so much for me. Literally I put music on so that my mind stops going a mile a minute as well. It's interesting because it does calm my random, useless thoughts. Yet it also surges my creative thoughts forward. That is all music too, yes classical I feel produces my best emotions, but I can get something from any kind of music.
Example being if I had been working on the story, I started about A guy explaining how he fell in love with music at a Rock concert. I would have been good. I listen to Rock when I am working on that story.

So anyway, I did not get the rewrite of Dark finished, we actually ended up making a whole day/evening of it, once her and her better half both got off work. It was a fun night. (perhaps a story for another time)
I wrote Dark in a day. Hopefully I will have the rewrite done in two. Seeing it lite up light a Christmas tree definitely shows me, even though I seem to have the ability to sit down and write something resembling a story out in one sitting. I shouldn't lol I should slow it down and take the time to proofread more. LOL