Staying in the Moment
/Very often my writing style can be mood based - which can cause difficulty when I'm trying to write a novel that appears to have been written by the same person from beginning to end. Because (unfortunately) I don't seem to be able to write a book in one sitting, I have found that creating a playlist of songs for that novel helps me form an association between those songs (I usually pick about 50) and the writing process. I call them the soundtrack for the novel. Each time I sit to write I play that same list. If I go back to rework a chapter - sometimes a year or more later - that playlist helps bring me back to the zone I wrote the original in. Um, I mean in which I wrote the original - sorry Jackie.