Your input invited
Oct. 16th, 2002 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrSometimes, when trying to figure out a character, I like to figure out stuff about them I might never use, just to try to get to know them better. Today, I've been thinking about what music Solveig would listen to.
I'm finding places where Solveig life mimics mine, (and Ingrid is taking on more and more of Delia's characteristics every day, as Delia is six years old, too.) Yet, Solveig isn't me, exactly.
When she's getting Ingrid ready in the morning, they listen to KSJN's The Morning Show, just as I do. In the car driving home, maybe they listen to the news on NPR, again like me. Agnes also lets Ingrid listen to a wide variety of stuff, some with a Scandinavian cast, like Värttinä, or the soundtrack to Ruth MacKenzie's "Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden" (Ingrid's favorite song on that CD is "Give Us Room to Roar," a great song for a six-year old for dancing). And of course, at home Solveig has Raffi tapes, and Prudence Johnson's CD for children, and Disney's greatest hits, etc. There's a boom box in Ingrid's room, and Solveig generally puts one of those CDs on for Ingrid to fall asleep to at night.
But what kind of music does Solveig like to listen to? Not Irish . . . that was Sean's musical choice in my last book, and I'd like to take Solveig in a different direction. Hmm. If the book is set in the near future, and Solveig is in her late twenties or early thirties (and I'm not going to pin it down any closer than that) then Solveig must have been born, say, somewhere between 1970 and 1976. She's a Myers-Briggs ISTJ, an architect. Perhaps she enjoys sketching as a hobby, esp. pictures of Ingrid. So what kind of music does she like? Perhaps some sort of cool jazz, very cerebral. Or, say, Prudence Johnson. Liz Phair or George Winston? Or . . . ? What else? She might enjoy Leigh Kamman's The Jazz Image on KSJN, or perhaps she listens to KBEM Jazz 88
I don't know why this seems so important to Solveig's character development but I've spent most of the day brooding about it. Anyway, here's your chance to add your dollop of influence to the book. If you have suggestions about what Solveig might listen to, and why, post a comment.
Word count: 712
today: 212
Cheers,
Peg
I'm finding places where Solveig life mimics mine, (and Ingrid is taking on more and more of Delia's characteristics every day, as Delia is six years old, too.) Yet, Solveig isn't me, exactly.
When she's getting Ingrid ready in the morning, they listen to KSJN's The Morning Show, just as I do. In the car driving home, maybe they listen to the news on NPR, again like me. Agnes also lets Ingrid listen to a wide variety of stuff, some with a Scandinavian cast, like Värttinä, or the soundtrack to Ruth MacKenzie's "Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden" (Ingrid's favorite song on that CD is "Give Us Room to Roar," a great song for a six-year old for dancing). And of course, at home Solveig has Raffi tapes, and Prudence Johnson's CD for children, and Disney's greatest hits, etc. There's a boom box in Ingrid's room, and Solveig generally puts one of those CDs on for Ingrid to fall asleep to at night.
But what kind of music does Solveig like to listen to? Not Irish . . . that was Sean's musical choice in my last book, and I'd like to take Solveig in a different direction. Hmm. If the book is set in the near future, and Solveig is in her late twenties or early thirties (and I'm not going to pin it down any closer than that) then Solveig must have been born, say, somewhere between 1970 and 1976. She's a Myers-Briggs ISTJ, an architect. Perhaps she enjoys sketching as a hobby, esp. pictures of Ingrid. So what kind of music does she like? Perhaps some sort of cool jazz, very cerebral. Or, say, Prudence Johnson. Liz Phair or George Winston? Or . . . ? What else? She might enjoy Leigh Kamman's The Jazz Image on KSJN, or perhaps she listens to KBEM Jazz 88
I don't know why this seems so important to Solveig's character development but I've spent most of the day brooding about it. Anyway, here's your chance to add your dollop of influence to the book. If you have suggestions about what Solveig might listen to, and why, post a comment.
Word count: 712
today: 212
Cheers,
Peg
Solveig's music
Date: 2002-10-22 08:48 am (UTC)Roger