Season 4 Episode 4: How Music Plays A Significant Part of Writing a Novel for Sidney St. James

<p><strong>Season 4</strong></p> <p><strong>Episode 4</strong></p> <p><strong>IN THE LIFE OF A NOVELIST AND HOW MUSIC PLAYS A VITAL ROLE</strong></p> <p>Hello Everyone. Sidney St. James. Today is a fun broadcast and one where I go back a decade and cover some of my best selling novels and how each one has a dramatic scene that I could never have written without the help of music.</p> <p>About five years ago, Amazon sent me an invitation to write the screenplay for FAITH – Seventy Times Seven. Well, the truth of the matter, I am on my fourth pass of writing it as it is actually far more difficult to write than one of my stories. In FAITH, a three-hundred and sixty-five page novel, it was important that I write the screenplay in under one hundred pages. Much easier said than done.</p> <p>Writing a scene in one of my novels which is usually one of the last scenes that the entire book worked up to, required my finding a song, and closing my eyes, and playing the song and the words come out of my mind like that in watching any love story that brings water to your eyes. Kinda like the tv series, “Signed, Sealed and Delivered.” Watch one of those episodes and be honest and tell me you don’t get a tear in your eye at the end.</p> <p>So, today, I will share my secret song for how I got the inspiration for each one of three best selling novels.</p> <p>Again, thanks for joining me.</p> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app">https://anchor.fm/app</a> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sidneystjames/message