/lit/ - Literature

>>19109266
Rarely while reading, since I find most music far too involving by itself, regardless of whether it's something wanted or unwanted. (What could be more loathsome than having music forced on you in a public place or at work?) And while there's almost always music in my head, sometimes things I haven't heard for decades, for writing it's another matter. It can be used to impose a mood, summon memory of a certain time & place, invoke a subject. It can augment conscious control. Synesthetic pathways differ, but during creative spells mine goes from sound to sight to words. It's also an error to assume that lyrical writing must necessarily be serene as pic related is, since even rant or bawdiness can be undertaken deliberately or in a highly self-aware way, provided there are pertaining images, and that they cohere at least as well as daydreams do. The overriding rule or priority I follow is that if in reading or writing there's nothing to see as a result, it's almost certainly bad as it is pointless. This principle holds as well for weighing shitpost quality and the magnificence of bastards, such as they are.