There are a few things I need to be able to write - apart from the obvious, pen, paper, ideas!! What helps the ideas flow are wine, chocolate and music...I will listen to certain songs over again when I'm writing as they help me get inside a characters head or just help me move the plot along if I'm stuck. Here are some of the songs that have inspired me...
BETRAYAL - Bon Jovi Superman Tonight
This is off the new Bon Jovi album "The Circle" and as soon as I heard this song and listenend to the lyrics it made me think of how Summer and Jez first met in Chapter one, when he rescues her from a car accident. The lyrics totally sum up their relationship and I LOVE the song!
BETRAYAL Bonnie Tyler - Holding out For a hero
This is totally Jez's song!! It just conjures up an image of my head of him rescuing Summer all the time (she REALLY needs a hero!) also the fact that he's a hot fire fighter just makes this song perfect for him ;o)
BETRAYAL - Maroon 5 - Wake Up Call
This song makes me think of Amber and Marcus' volatile relationship - fab song too!
BETRAYAL - Alice Cooper - Poison
This song pretty much sums up how Matt feels about Amber...nice!! Their relationship is probably the most complex.
BETRAYAL - The Script - Break Even
I played this song a lot when I was editing the middle part of the book...when things start to get a bit crazy, hearts are broken and things start to fall apart between the group of friends...
BETRAYAL - The Script - Talk you Down
Another one by The Script - they just have great lyrics! Another one that reminds me of Sumer and Jez...towards the end of the book and Jez is trying to reach out to Summer, to rescue her yet again
BETRAYAL - Bon Jovi - Love Me Back To Life
One of my favourites off the "Bounce" CD...I LOVE the lyrics to this...without giving too much away and revealing too much of the plot a character is introduced towards the end of the book and I listened to this song over and over when I was writing their scenes.
BETRAYAL - Bon Jovi - Always
Yep...another Bon Jovi one,( but I make no apology for that - been a HUGE fan since I was 14 and THIS was the song that got me into them!). The song is really important to the end of the book, it kind've sums everything up - listenend to it over and over to get the ending exactly how I wanted it!
BETRAYAL - Don Henley - New York Minute
The lyrics don't really apply to the characters, it's mainly the chorus that makes me think of the whole "essence" of BETRAYAL and with the book being set in New York - it's perfect. The book opens in Times Square NYE 1999 and I am torn between this being perfect for the prologue or perfect for the epilogue (which I'm not telling you about!!)
LOVE OVERBOARD - SOUNDTRACK
LOVE OVERBOARD - I Want You to Want Me (from 10 things I hate about you)
Love Overboard is heavily influenced by movie soundtracks (Not sure why!) and this song is perfect as Ten things I hate about you gets mentioned a few times (it's Lucie's favourite film) ...I listenend to this a lot whilst writing the end of the book when Lucie was trying to decide whether to choose her rugged rugby player Ant or her sexy sailor Nick! The soundtrack for this book is a little more light hearted than Betrayal.
LOVE OVERBOARD - Can't take my eyes off you
Seriously, I haven't pinched the soundtrack to this film but this is another song that is directly referenced to in the book...Lucie & Zoey get roped into karaoke on the ship and this is the song that Nick sings, reminding Lucie of this scene in her favourite film and probably a direct result of her falling a little bit more for Nick than she already has.
LOVE OVERBOARD - Oh I love you so (from Cocktail)
As I mentioned there are some film songs on this soundtrack...Half of the book is set on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, which instantly makes me think of Cocktail and this song is perfect for when Lucie and Zo are drinking cocktails while the ship gets ready to sail off into the sunset as Nick watches wishing he could go over and join them.
LOVE OVERBOARD - Geno Dexy's Midnight Runners
So half of the story in a ship and other parts are in a rugby club...this song is integral to Lucie & Zoey's drunken nights in the rugby club with their Rugby player's Adam & Ant... I HAD to include this song, it's memories of my mispent (although well educated!!) youth in a rugby club, there is no way I could not have included this song somewhere in the book
LOVE OVERBOARD Love Drunk Boys Like Girls
This is a FAB tune, listened to it lots and lots when Nick comes back into Lucie's life and unsettles things between her and Ant. It's just such a cool song, it's got quite raw lyrics but sung in a really upbeat way...which is hopefully how Love Overboard comes across!
LOVE OVERBOARD - All American Rejects - Gives you Hell
Obviously unless I was writing a totally different kind've book there can be only one guy who wins Lucie's heart, but before we get to that point there are lots of emotions being pulled all over the place and Nick stupidly picks a fight with a rugby player - doh! Ant wins that fight easily...but is it as easy to win Lucie's heart? This song was great when I was writing the fight scenes as I still wanted it to be fun - well as fun as a love triangle can be!
LOVE OVERBOARD Scouting for Girls - This Aint a Love song
Again a song that I listened to a lot towards the end of the book...I didn't want Ant or Nick to sound too soppy, just confused.
LOVE OVERBOARD - Bon Jovi - Damned
Ha! You thought there wasn't any Bon Jovi influence in this book - wrong! This is the most important song. I always wanted to write a story incorporating a cruise ship but could never quite get the story right in my head until one day when I was driving along listening to Bon Jovi and the first verse of this song sent my imagination into overdrive ...
I'm lying here beside you in someone else's bed
Knowing what were doing's wrong
But better left unsaid
Your breathing sounds like screaming
It's all that I can stand
His ring is on your finger
But my heart is in your hands
Damned if you love me
Damned if you don't
And the Love Overboard Love triangle was born!!
I'm lying here beside you in someone else's bed
Knowing what were doing's wrong
But better left unsaid
Your breathing sounds like screaming
It's all that I can stand
His ring is on your finger
But my heart is in your hands
Damned if you love me
Damned if you don't
And the Love Overboard Love triangle was born!!