Hi am new here and thought I'd get posting! Music is great for writing
too- I like anything dark and atmospheric and often have music playing
in the actual piece I'm writing. Stuff like Led Zeppelin is great as
theres something a bit sinister in the undertones of their tracks
(Stairway, Babe I'm gonna leave you) Power metal is also cool. The
80's band Europe started as a power metal quartet and their first two
albums had great riffs and atmosphere. I find films more influential
than books personally however, and write as I 'see' it, kind of using
my imagination as the 'camera lens' you just have to be good
descriptively and pick up on little quirks and habits of characters to
atone for the lack of an actual camera to tell the story.