Brian White, author of The Strands and In the Shadow of the Witch and the upcoming, Horn and Dagger, reveals the music that is inspiring his new novels.

As I frequently cite music as a major source of inspiration for my work many people have asked me what I listen to and how that plays a role in my process of putting a novel together. Although I don’t have a formula, I find that I frequently get an idea while listening to a particular group or album and then I listen to it over and over again. That thought becomes a question or concept which then turns into a storyline. Then I usually find other music during the writing process that fills in further scenes or creates the environment or atmosphere I like to conjure while I write.

In these pages I’ll share what music I listened to grouped by writing project. When you get a chance to read the books and listen to the music you can see if I channeled the spirit of the music and atmosphere into the story. The list could also be the soundtrack for reading the novels.

I’ll update the list as I work on stories, take on new projects and continue my search for inspiration through music. I hope you enjoy the journey and the music as much as I have.

I also include a playlist at the end of each project which I consider to be the soundtrack to the novel. I’ll also include that playlist in these pages.

Brian White, author of The Strands, In the Shadow of the Witch and the upcoming, Horn and Dagger explores the influence that psychology, philosophy and mysticism have had in the inspiration of his stories and how these subjects have played a role in the development of his novels.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with me and my work my name is Brian White, and I am a dark fantasy author with three novels currently in print, The Strands, In the Shadow of the Witch, and Horn and Dagger. I also write columns and essays for www.darkrevmedia.com and run a blog on the darkrevmedia site called, The Dark Daily, covering topics such as what inspires me, my creative writing process, and the influence Heavy Metal music has had on my writing.

This new project, I’m calling Dark Parallels, was born from the realization that I tend to gather a lot of eclectic information and find synchronicity in jumbled datasets. I then form strange connections between these various topics that I use to entertain my mind. In many ways my novels are a fictionalization of these head trips which I like to call mental gymnastics. During these mental gyrations I also indulge in the purely speculative aspect of these subjects, forming thought experiments and hypotheses based on the convoluted pattern of twisting and circling that my thoughts go through during the process.

Brian White is a Dark Fantasy Author that enjoys creating dark magical worlds and exploring various philosophical and mystical concepts through my writing.