Oct 31, 2020

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How Listening to Music Can Power Up Your Writing

Revisiting the video game soundtrack from Sega’s Outrun (1986)

What helps concentrate my writing lately is something I would never have expected. Instead of my usual go-to music, I find a youtube video of a video game from the 1980s and listen to the full soundtrack.

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How Listening to Music Can Power Up Your Writing

Revisiting the video game soundtrack from Sega’s Outrun (1986)

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