Fuel Your Letters with Music

If you’re looking for a way to take your letters a step deeper. Make them brighter. Give them more depth, I have a secret for you. Listen. Love. And Write. You’ve got the loving and writing thing down. So lets get you to listen.

Make a session out of your love-writing. Make it more than something fun. Find an hour, or two, or three and dedicate your afternoon too it. No facebook, no work calls, just you, the music in your ears and the pencil in your hand.

You need inspiration? Listen..

Inspiration Playlist:

Before you write. Close your eyes. Chew each piece of the letter you are about to write. Savor each word. Listen.

No Light No Light: Florence and the Machine

If You Run: The Boxer Rebellion

Speed The Collapse: Metric

Samsketi: Sigur Ros

While You Write. Go. Let the words flow like a water fountain. Pour. Pour the contents out of your heart. Listen.

As I Lay My Head Down: Tamer Animals

Life In Technicolor: Coldplay

Hurt Me: The Jezabels

Clementine: Sarah Jaffe

Pacific: Sleeping at Last

I Can Feel A Hot One: Manchester Orchestra

In This Shirt: The Irrepressibles

While You Read It Back Over. Toss the words back through your mind. Don’t judge your content. Be proud of your outpour of love. Seal the envelope. Listen.

Point Me At Lost Lands: Tired Pony

Other Lives: Tamer Animals

Atlantic: Sleeping At Last

You need depth? Someone is hurting. You don’t quite understand. You need to dig deeper but your arms just can’t pull the shovel up one more time. Cozy yourself and listen. A tissue box might be necessary. Don’t be afraid to let yourself go. there. Listen.

Depth Playlist:

Before you write. Release your thoughts. You’re safe here. Take them out of their respective bins and let them go free. You’ve kept them there too long. Be free. Feel. Breathe. Listen.

Cold Desert: Kings of Leon

Get On The Road: Tired Pony

Swelling: Sarah Jaffe

Breathe Me: Sia

Homesick: Sleeping at Last

While you write. Lift your pencil and let it move like a dancer on the wood floors. Let it sculpt the story you need to tell. Release. Pour. Listen.

Both Sides Are Even: The Boxer Rebellion

On The Nature Of Daylight: Max Richter

Angel: Sarah McLachlan

Hourglass: Sleeping at Last

Im There Too: Michelle Featherstone

Mothers: S. Carey

While You Read It Back. Settle yourself into your words. Wrap yourself in the shoelace of your thoughts with a double knot. Embrace the pain you’ve faced. Discover the new hope you’ve released and wrapped for someone to discover. Seal the envelope. Listen.

Im In Here: Sia

Landfill: Daughter

Into Dust: Mazzy Star

If you don’t like a song, change it. Make it yours and make this playlist your depth&inspiration go-to. Feeling down? Listen. Feeling enlightened? Listen. Find a zone and make cozy there. For, there, and only there, you will discover the most incredulous of treasures.