- Write a lot… get into the habit of writing everyday.
- Self critique can become stressful, be sure to ask your friends and family for honest feedback.
- Take your time. The more time spent reading, writing and learning the better.
- Make sure to structure your work, unnecessary subplots can become too complicated and confuse the reader.
- Be sure to have a good writing playlist at hand. Why not check out our Spotify playlists for some inspiration.
Click on the link below to listen: https://open.spotify.com/user/candyjarbooks/playlist/3r4nUf0XLtPwjy4EsOxOHY?si=KgMjHRwNQ5q3VX297nFcGw
Bright Eyes – Art Garfunkel (inspired by Watership Down by Richard Adams)
Hurricane – Bob Dylan (inspired by The Sixteenth Round by Rubin Hurricane Carter)
Tom Joad – Woody Guthrie (inspired by The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck)
Atticus – The Noisettes (inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)
Song for Clay – Bloc Party (inspired by Less Than Zero by Easton Ellis)
The Dark is Rising – Mercury Rev (inspired by The Dark by Susan Cooper)
A Rose for Emily – The Zombies (inspired by A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner)
Bell Jar – The Bangles (inspired by The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath)
I am a Rock – Simon and Garfunkel (inspired by Meditation XVll by John Donne)
China In Your Hand – T’Pau (inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)
Firework – Katy Perry (inspired by On the Road by Jack Kerouac)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John (inspired by The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum)
Off to the Races – Lana Del Ray (inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)
Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac (inspired by Triad by Mary Leader)
The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins – Leonard Nimoy (inspired by The Hobbit by J.R. R. Tolkien)
Tomorrow Never Knows – The Beatles (inspired by The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary and Robert Alpert)
Video Killed the Radio Star – The Buggles (inspired by The Sound Sweep by J. G. Ballard)
Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush (inspired by Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte)
Across 110th Street – Bobby Womack (inspired by 110th Street by Wally Ferris)
Willie Burke Sherwood – Killer Mike (inspired by Lord of the Flies by William Golding)
Same Drugs – Chance the Rapper (inspired by Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie)
Thieves In the Night – Black Star (inspired by The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison)
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Metallica (inspired by For Whom the Bells Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)
Motorcycle Emptiness – Manic Street Preachers (inspired by Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton)
One Brown Mouse – Jethro Tull (inspired by To a Mouse by Robert Burns)
Paranoid Android – Radiohead (inspired by Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams)
Ramble On – Led Zeppelin (inspired by Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien)
Red Right Hand – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (inspired by Paradise Lost by Milton)
Soma – The Strokes (inspired by Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)
Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones (inspired by Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Invisible Man – Queen (inspired by The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells)
The Tomahawk Kid – The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (inspired by Treasure Island by Louis Stevenson)
Venus In Furs – The Velvet Underground
Inspired by Venus in Furs by Leopoid von Sachor-Masoch
Walk On The Wild Side – Lou Reed (inspired by Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren)
Whip It – Devo (inspired by Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon)
White Rabbit – Jefferson Aeroplane (inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
Backyard Skull – Frightened Rabbit (inspired by Where the Bodies are Buried by Christopher Brookmyre)
I Fought in a War – Belle and Sebastian (inspired by For Esme with Squalor and Love by J. D. Salinger)
True Ways of Knowing – Blue Rose Code (inspired by True ways of Knowing by Norman MaCaig)
A Man for All seasons – Al Stuart (inspired by The Play by Robert Bolt)
Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell (inspired by Henderson and the rain by Saul Bellow)
1984 – Joni Mitchell (inspired by Henderson and the Rain by Saul Bellow)
1984 – David Bowie (inspired by 1984 by George Orwell)
Boot Stamping On a Human Face – Bad Religion (inspired by 1984 by George Orwell)
Welcome to 1984 – Anti-Flag (inspired by 1984 by George Orwell)
I am the Walrus – The Beatles (inspired by The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
Brave New World – Iron Maiden (inspired by Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)
Soma – Smashing Pumpkins (inspired by Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)
Catcher in the Rye – Guns ‘n’ Roses (inspired by The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger)
Who Wrote Haulden Caulfield? – Green Day (inspired by Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger)
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds – The Beatles (inspired by The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
Frankenstein – Lenny Kravitz (inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)
Walk this Way – Aerosmith (inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)
Feed my Frankenstein – Alice Cooper (inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)
Lolita – Lana Del Ray (inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)
Gothic Lolita – Emilie Autumn (inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)
Don’t Stand Too Close to Me – The Police (inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)
Lord of the Flies – Iron Maiden (inspired by Lord of the Flies by William Golding)
Shadows and Tall Trees – U2 (inspired by Lord of the Flies by William Golding)
Rivendell – Rush (inspired by Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien)
H.W.C – Liz Phair (inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde)
The Ocean – U2 (inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde)
The Stranger Song – Leonard Cohen (inspired by The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren)
Angelene – PJ Harvey (inspired by Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes by J. D. Salinger)
Been Down So Long – The Doors (inspired by Counterculture Classic by Richard Farina)
Scentless Apprentice – Nirvana (inspired by Perfume by Cobain)
My Blaeken Year – Patti Smith (inspired by Unknown by William Blake)
We are the Dead – David Bowie (inspired by 1984 by George Orwell)
Banana Co – Radiohead (inspired by One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Hurricane – Thirty Seconds to Mars (inspired by The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)
Sympathy for the Devil – Rolling Stones (inspired by The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov)
Prince Caspian – Phish (inspired by Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis)
Narnia – Steve Hackett (inspired by Narnia Series by C. S. Lewis)
Mock Turtle Song – Steely Dan (inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
Alice – Tom Waits (inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
Barefoot Children – Jimmy Buffett (inspired by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)
Return to Pooh Corner – Kenny Logins (inspired by The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne)
Charlotte Sometimes – The Cure (inspired by Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer)
Tom Sawyer – Rush (inspired by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain)
Bucking Bronco – Scarth Locke (inspired by Bucking Bronco by Shel Silverstein)
Dollars and Cents – Radiohead (inspired by No Logo by Naomi Kiens)
Atrocity Exhibition – Joy Division (inspired by Condensed Novels by JG Ballard)
Dead – Pixie (inspired by The Bible)
Jocasta – Noah and the Whale (inspired by Sophocles by Oedipus Rex)
Yertle the Turtle – Red Hot Chilli Peppers (inspired by Dr. Seuss’s Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Rick Wakeman (inspired by Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne)
Are Friends Electric – Gary Numan (inspired by Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick)
Friendly Fires – Pala (inspired by Island by Aldous Huxley)
Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by Eurythmics (inspired by 1984 by George Orwell)
by Daria Morgan and Verity Russell
