Play List for Writing: Contemporary Fiction

I find that I need to have background noise when I write as it helps with setting my mood.

The fictional book I am writing at the moment is a contemporary romance therefore this is the playlist I have created to help get me in the head-space of my characters:

Paloma Faith – A Perfect Contradiction & Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?

One Republic – Waking Up, Dreaming Out Loud & Native

Amy Winehouse – Back to Black & Frank

Adele – 19 & 21

Sia – 1000 Forms of Fear & Some People Have Real Problems

Ed Sheeran – X

Gabrielle Aplin – English Rain

George – The Esessential Hits

Calvin Harris – Motion

The Cure – Pornography & Disintegration

 

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What inspires me: To Live the Life by `Abdu’l-Bahá

To be no cause of grief to anyone.

To be kind to all people and to love them with a pure spirit.

Should opposition or injury happen to us, to bear it, to be as kind as ever can be, and through all, to love the people.   Should calamity exist in the greatest degree, to rejoice, for these things are the gifts and favors of God.

To be silent concerning the faults of others, to pray for them, and to help them, through kindness, to correct their faults.

To look always at the good and not at the bad.  If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, look at the ten and forget the one. And if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

Never to allow ourselves to speak one unkind word about another, even though that other be our enemy.

To do all of our deeds in kindness.

To cut our hearts from ourselves and from the world.

To be humble.

To be servants of each other, and to know that we are less than anyone else.

To be as one soul in many bodies, for the more we love each other, the nearer we shall be to God; but to know that our love, our unity, our obedience must not be by confession, but of reality.

To act with cautiousness and wisdom.

To be truthful.

To be hospitable.

To be reverent.

To be the cause of healing for every sick one,

          a comforter for every sorrowful one,

          a pleasant water for every thirsty one.

          a heavenly table for every hungry one,

          a star to every horizon,

          a light for every lamp,

          a herald to everyone who yearns for the kingdom of God

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