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A beta reader for Crossing into the Mystic suggested that I was showing my age by having my character Clay – a young, brave, dashing, handsome guy, of course – describe the Eagles’ Greatest Hits album as the best one ever produced. Clay shares this thought while trying to calm the heroine, Grace, after she’s just learned that there was a murder in her house – 150 years ago!
“Young people today,” the reader said, “don’t know that music.”
Oh really?
I bet my college-age son could sing every song on that album, and he could even tell you the order of those songs.
(Okay, never mind that when he was little, he kept calling them penguins instead of eagles…)
Good music has no age or era limitations. In fact, my husband recently started finding joy in the big band music of the 40s.
If you’re the creative type, I encourage you to read an article I wrote about using music in your writing. Not with your writing or while you’re writing, but in your writing: http://storywritingstudio.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/do-you-cue-the-music-in-your-writing/
What’s your all-time-favorite album?
Historical intrigue interwoven with modern-day suspense and a touch of the mysterious.
Contemporary romantic suspense.
Coming-of-age sagas.
I think you’re spot on, Debra. It’s a classic! My favorite album? That’s tough because I love music but in the spirit of The Eagles Greatest Hits, I’d have to vote for Boston!