15 mixes taggedwriting playlist

It's that time of the semester again. When everything you pushed off until the end is ultimately, and unfortunately, due. Here's my bi-annual mix to get you motivated to pump out countless numbers of pages for your bullshit papers.

an eclectic choice of semblances of vibrations to stimulate the brain

Writing songs for book #2 of my Japanese influenced YA urban fantasy series The Katana Trilogy (Book #1, The Night Itself, out from Walker Books 2013). For more information visit my blog at http://thezoe-trope.blogspot.co.uk/

Over an hour worth of tunes that will help you focus on getting these stupid fucking end of the semester essays done.

Some of the music I listened to while writing my YA Japanese-inspired Cinderella retelling (Walker UK, Candlewick Press US). For more information visit www.zoemarriott.com

Some of the music I listened to while I was writing FrostFire, my upcoming YA fantasy about wolves, berserker rage, and the difference between good and evil (Walker Books, 2012). More info at www.zoemarriott.com!

Twenty tracks guaranteed* to get your creative juices flowing by bands like Radiohead, Two Door Cinema Club, and Mother Mother! (*not actually guaranteed)

the problem with dating your best friend is when it ends, when they break your heart and leave you confused and listless and lost, you have no one to really talk to about it because the person you’d turn to when dealing with this type of pain is the very person who caused it.

and not having someone to talk to can really mess you up.

Playlist for novella, The Neighborhood. Released by Thunderstorm Books, Elemental Series, September 2011.

The tragic story of a girl who runs away with the circus discovering love, herself and a plot to take over the world.

i couldn’t bring myself to tell the truth: what i missed wasn’t a where but a when.

and a who.

sometimes i talk back, carrying on a conversation in my head, words that echo and fill my stone. i tell her how one day i hope to know her, that one day she will look at me and see me. that for once, i’ll feel alive