Brittany Maresh

writer

I’ve been going to karaoke with my friends on Thursdays, and I’ve discovered two things:
Most of my friends sing well and the music I listen to is not karaoke music. Neither of these things are startling revelations, to be honest. I get all my music from my four weird siblings, and my friends are the sort of people who, y’know, go to karaoke.

My current “top five” are all a little different, but they work for what I’ve been writing lately. I was going to make some argument about it not really being representative of the novel I’m currently working on, because the novel itself is weird, but I think that would probably be a lie no matter when I was saying it.

I re-set my song plays every so often, because for whatever reason the top played song get played more frequently. Here are my current top five played songs, with 15 plays in the past two weeks:

• Help Me by Alkaline Trio
• Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been by Reliant K
• Secrets by One Republic
• Spaceman by The Killers
• Certain Tragedy by Saves the Day

Take from that what you will, because just looking at that list, I have to wonder what sort of monster I’m currently writing. Yikes.
-Bri Maresh

Something about a strong and young female narrator requires female vocalists. I’m not quite sure why that should be true, but in this particular case it is.

Sometimes a strong playlist can keep the picture of the novel as a whole more clearly in mind for those of us who are gifted with the ability to write without complete silence, and I think it’s almost a necessary tool for anyone who can take advantage of it.

Of course, if you happen upon me and I’m listening to the Anastasia soundtrack, that explains it all.

-Brittany Maresh