Many times before, I have been plagued with writer's block. It's happened to me as recent as last week, and each time it does occur, I always turn to music, where I never cease to find inspiration. Usually, slow tempo music is what relaxes me the most and tends to bring all different kinds of ideas to mind, and what I listen to really does dictate if what I'll write is good or not. Here's the playlist I turn to in times of writer's block:
1. The xx- Intro
2. Caspian- Dust and Disquiet
3. Bon Iver- Holocene
4. Angus and Julia Stone- Lonely Hands
5. Cage the Elephant- How Are You True
6. Band of Horses- The Funeral
7. Ben Howard- Oats in the Water
8. Vance Joy- Who Am I
9. Johnnyswim- Heart Beats
10. Coldplay- Talk
11. Citizen Cope- Lifeline
12. Angus and Julia Stone- From The Stalls
13. City and Colour- Sensible Heart
14. Front Porch Step- A Lovely Mess
15. Twenty One Pilots- Slowtown
16. Cage the Elephant- Telescope
17. Of Monsters and Men- Dirty Paws
18. Wiretree- Big Coat
19. Hozier- To Be Alone
20. Down Like Silver- Wolves
21. Ben Harper- She's Only Happy in the Sun
22. Kodaline- High Hopes
23. Aurora- Runaway
24. The xx- Stars
25. James Vincent McMorrow- Wicked Game
26. Oasis- Stop Crying Your Heart Out
27. Elliot Smith- Between the Bars
28. Chet Faker- Gold
29. Arctic Monkeys- 505
30. Real Friends- Sixteen
31. Ben Howard- The Fear
32. Lorde- Buzzcut Season
33. The Lumineers- Stubborn Love
34. Mumford and Sons- White Blank Page
35. Duffy- Warwick Avenue
36. The 1975- Medicine
37. Coldplay- Fix You
38. Andrew Belle- In My Veins
39. Stateless- Bloodstream
40. The Temper Trap- Sweet Disposition
41. Benjamin Francis Leftwich- 1904
42. Twenty One Pilots- Oh Miss Believer
43. London Grammar- Wasting My Young Years
44. Elton John- Your Song
45. Florence + The Machine- Cosmic Love
46. Bon Iver- 22
47. Ellie Goulding- Dead in the Water
48. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Otherside
49. Buttons- The Deep End
50. Twenty One Pilots- Before You Start Your Day
51. The Used- Hard to Say
52. The Story So Far- Clairvoyant
53. The Fray- Heartless (Cover)
54. Margot & The Nuclear So And So's- Broadripple Is Burning
55. Mazzy Star- Fade Into You
56. Coldplay- Don't Panic
57. Kaleo- Way Down We Go
58. The Cinematic Orchestra- To Build A Home
59. City and Colour- Comin' Home
60. Cold War Kids- First
Music is something that has always offered me inspiration and comfort. Every time I feel as if I have no more words left in me to write or say, I turn to these songs and the words begin to come to mind, forming sentences then paragraphs, so on and so on. Then, I begin to write again.