I admit I’m a creataholic, though I don’t try to be. Ideas are always popping into my head, sometimes simple in nature, sometimes detailed, dumb, or outlandish.

Years ago, I learned to keep a notebook in my nightstand so that, during the night, I could jot down the ideas and thoughts, therefore releasing them from of my overworking mind. If I didn’t, the ideas would nag at me and keep me awake. If there was music my head, however, there was a problem because music notation was not my strong point. I’d sometimes get up in the middle of the night and do enough tinkering on my piano to allow me to do simple notation, so I wouldn’t forget the melody that kept playing in my head. Otherwise, by morning, the melody would be gone when I turned on my music creator app.

As I started writing little tales that would eventually become novel chapters for Heaven’s Wait, situations arose where I thought to myself, if this was a musical, here would be a good place for a song. And some of the characters themselves began to write their own lyrics, based on their storylines. My mind would either concoct lyrics that fit the storylines, or a melody would started formulating in my head. I found myself having to put the brakes on the writing so I could give the songs a chance to become something tangible. I filed them away knowing I would someday find a way to make use of them. Some of those files are 15 years old.

The music, in its elementary form, continues to come to me. I’ll work on a story character or situation and think, a song belongs here. It would add life to that character or situation. The question, however, has always been…how do I integrate these songs into a printed book series? Who does that? I guess Tales of Vowella has always been a movie or musical in my head, so I needed to figure out how to convey that concept to a reading audience.

If you are interested in the reading more about the evolution of the music of Tales of Vowella, and to listen to the music itself, bookmark the main music page – Music of an Imaginary World. Ongoing blog posts will introduce the musical pieces and their history. I invite you to enjoy the music from the Tales from Vowella series. B

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