Mike Stop Continues
In so many parallel worlds, I'm a composer rather than a writer. There was a point in my mid-twenties where I could have gone either way, but I knew that neither of my arts could live while the other survived. So I looked at my possible futures and thought about how I could offer the world the most good. The wind blew from the east that day, and I chose writing.
That said, my passion for music hasn't diminished. You can see it in characters like Taylor and Marty and Jude. I give them that part of me that I can no longer express. The will to create pure emotions, as music alone can do.
I sing constantly while at work, often unconsciously. A day doesn't pass without my husband calling through the rooms because I'm inventing parts for whatever music is on at the time. I dream of music almost as often, and of the lives I might have lead had I chosen differently.
So I guess I allow music to come up so often in my writing because, if for some reason I never get back to it, at least I'll know that much of that passion lives on.
That said, my passion for music hasn't diminished. You can see it in characters like Taylor and Marty and Jude. I give them that part of me that I can no longer express. The will to create pure emotions, as music alone can do.
I sing constantly while at work, often unconsciously. A day doesn't pass without my husband calling through the rooms because I'm inventing parts for whatever music is on at the time. I dream of music almost as often, and of the lives I might have lead had I chosen differently.
So I guess I allow music to come up so often in my writing because, if for some reason I never get back to it, at least I'll know that much of that passion lives on.
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