Are there any skills and techniques you’ve learnt in music that you discovered are transferable to your writing and helped improve it, and vice versa?
Bonus Q: what are you singing at a karaoke?
Asks @Emmacox
1. I learned to be succinct with my choice of words in songwriting, I think, and also how words can flow together. I hope that has transferred to my writing. I like wordplay, but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I’m still very much learning the storytelling craft, so it’s interesting to see how I can interlink the two. I’m trying to write some songs for a story I’ve written based on my north-eastern ancestry and am finding that much harder to do than when I wrote a story based around some characters in songs.
2. Probably ‘Where’s Me Jumper’ by Sultans of Ping FC. It won’t matter if it goes horribly wrong…