sab answered hi author ♥ i read all of 3rd int over a fe…

baby kitten · 3mo

hi author ♥ i read all of 3rd int over a few days (staying up until 4am...) and still thinking about it constantly... i mentioned this in my ao3 comment but i love the way you write about music and playing piano. i was wondering if you had any playlists for this fic of the music included and/or other music that inspired you while writing? i would love to listen to more through your lens of knowledge... xoxo thank you for your work

thank you so much for your kind words 🥺 i'll put all the spotify links below so you can make your own third intention ost playlist - this was the exact run of songs i was listening to on repeat for like 8 months while writing the fic (waltz of the flowers leading straight into liebestraum makes me tear up every time asdjla;)

i'll be completely honest with you, i barely knew anything about classical music when i started writing the fic. i actually picked out moonlight sonata completely randomly as a last minute addition to the first chapter while editing. nocturne in c-sharp was a recommendation from my best friend for chapter 2 and it was only from there i actually started listening to a lot of classical playlists on youtube for any songs that felt "right" for the tone of each chapter. from there i started to build each chapter around each piece (the fic actually wasn't supposed to have chapter names originally, but once i knew how important the piano pieces were, i added them after chapter 3. this was also for the waltz of the flowers moment - the reader would know that jeongin always performs the chapter name piece and once they get to the showcase scene, he hasn't played it yet... and then the lights go out...... and the reader is supposed to know at that moment exactly what he's going to do 😈)

then to actually write it the piano scenes, i just watched a lot of youtube videos, read through quora and reddit posts for answers to specific questions on learning the pieces, and tried to pick up as much jargon as possible (i did do some music in school so i can read sheet music... kinda. that helped). you can tell the piano scenes are really short and the details are shallow in the earlier chapters and then get significantly more in depth by the end once i'd learned more. my youtube algorithm for real was just pianist content for a while. and i'm a huge fan of classical music now!!! i have a whole new appreciation for it.

i think people who probably ARE professional pianists irl will likely be able to tell i don't play piano 😂😂😂 but i tried my best!!

for music i listen to when i write, i think i've pavlovian trained myself to only write while listening to kpop and kpop mashups.... so i mainly listen to that when writing. i'm not really the kind of writer who gets inspired through music? i think i get inspired through life experiences and it just happened for this fic that music was a big theme, so i was really looking for pieces that would support jeongin's journey. the piano scenes ended up becoming my favourite part of each chapter to write, it was such a fun experience!!

i don't know how helpful that was, but thank you for the question!!! 🩷

baby kitten · 3mo

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