In the past I’ve talked about how I find music very inspiring. I love to listen to the “story” the musician is trying to tell…to hear the emotion he or she is trying to convey. Oftentimes, that sparks an idea for my own muse. While I LOVE to listen to music, I don’t usually do so WHILE I’m writing like a lot of authors do. I don’t listen to music for the very reasons I mentioned above…ie, I’d get so involved in listening to the song that I wouldn’t be writing. 
When I wrote the song that appears in my vampire novel A TASTE FOR CONTROL, I know I must’ve spent 3 hours on it. Usually, in the span of three hours, I’ve written at least 2,000 words, not just 30 lines of lyrics. LOL! So after the experience of creating Duncan Mordoor’s song, I definitely developed a newfound respect for muscians as well as a love for what they do–to take an emotion-filled moment or a snippet in time and condense it into a song that conveys it all…to tell its “story” in a way that moves people.
One day, instead of creating a song to add depth to a novel, I think it would be neat to write a story “around” a song I’ve written. Hmmmm, the possibilites. 
Have you heard Regina Spektor, Dave Golden or Beth Orton? All three are young songwriters who take stories and observations and put them into these great little frames.
Hi Connie,
No I haven’t heard of them. How neat! I’ll have to check them out.
Thanks for the tip!