1. Write a lot… get into the habit of writing everyday.
2. Self critique can become stressful, be sure to ask your friends and family for honest feedback.
3. Take your time. The more time spent reading, writing and learning the better.
4. Make sure to structure your work, unnecessary subplots can become too complicated and confuse the reader.
5. Be sure to have a good writing playlist at hand. Why not check out our Spotify playlists for some inspiration.

Click on the link below to listen: https://open.spotify.com/user/candyjarbooks/playlist/3r4nUf0XLtPwjy4EsOxOHY?si=KgMjHRwNQ5q3VX297nFcGw

Bright Eyes – Art Garfunkel (inspired by Watership Down by Richard Adams)

Hurricane – Bob Dylan (inspired by The Sixteenth Round by Rubin Hurricane Carter)

Tom Joad – Woody Guthrie (inspired by The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck)

Atticus – The Noisettes (inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)

Song for Clay – Bloc Party (inspired by Less Than Zero by Easton Ellis)

The Dark is Rising – Mercury Rev (inspired by The Dark by Susan Cooper)

A Rose for Emily – The Zombies (inspired by A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner)

Bell Jar – The Bangles (inspired by The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath)

I am a Rock – Simon and Garfunkel (inspired by Meditation XVll by John Donne)

China In Your Hand – T’Pau (inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)

Firework – Katy Perry (inspired by On the Road by Jack Kerouac)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John (inspired by The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum)

Off to the Races – Lana Del Ray (inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)

Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac (inspired by Triad by Mary Leader)

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins – Leonard Nimoy (inspired by The Hobbit by J.R. R. Tolkien)

Tomorrow Never Knows – The Beatles (inspired by The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary and Robert Alpert)

Video Killed the Radio Star – The Buggles (inspired by The Sound Sweep by J. G. Ballard)

Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush (inspired by Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte)

Across 110^th Street – Bobby Womack (inspired by 110^th Street by Wally Ferris)

Willie Burke Sherwood – Killer Mike (inspired by Lord of the Flies by William Golding)

Same Drugs – Chance the Rapper (inspired by Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie)

Thieves In the Night – Black Star (inspired by The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison)

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Metallica (inspired by For Whom the Bells Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)

Motorcycle Emptiness – Manic Street Preachers (inspired by Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton)

One Brown Mouse – Jethro Tull (inspired by To a Mouse by Robert Burns)

Paranoid Android – Radiohead (inspired by Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams)

Ramble On – Led Zeppelin (inspired by Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien)

Red Right Hand – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (inspired by Paradise Lost by Milton)

Soma – The Strokes (inspired by Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)

Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones (inspired by Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov)

The Invisible Man – Queen (inspired by The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells)

The Tomahawk Kid – The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (inspired by Treasure Island by Louis Stevenson)

Venus In Furs – The Velvet Underground

Inspired by Venus in Furs by Leopoid von Sachor-Masoch

Walk On The Wild Side – Lou Reed (inspired by Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren)

Whip It – Devo (inspired by Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon)

White Rabbit – Jefferson Aeroplane (inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

Backyard Skull – Frightened Rabbit (inspired by Where the Bodies are Buried by Christopher Brookmyre)

I Fought in a War – Belle and Sebastian (inspired by For Esme with Squalor and Love by J. D. Salinger)

True Ways of Knowing – Blue Rose Code (inspired by True ways of Knowing by Norman MaCaig)

A Man for All seasons – Al Stuart (inspired by The Play by Robert Bolt)

Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell (inspired by Henderson and the rain by Saul Bellow)

1984 – Joni Mitchell (inspired by Henderson and the Rain by Saul Bellow)

1984 – David Bowie (inspired by 1984 by George Orwell)

Boot Stamping On a Human Face – Bad Religion (inspired by 1984 by George Orwell)

Welcome to 1984 – Anti-Flag (inspired by 1984 by George Orwell)

I am the Walrus – The Beatles (inspired by The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

Brave New World – Iron Maiden (inspired by Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)

Soma – Smashing Pumpkins (inspired by Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)

Catcher in the Rye – Guns ‘n’ Roses (inspired by The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger)

Who Wrote Haulden Caulfield? – Green Day (inspired by Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger)

Lucy in the Sky With  Diamonds – The Beatles (inspired by The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland  by Lewis Carroll)

Frankenstein – Lenny Kravitz (inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)

Walk this Way – Aerosmith (inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)

Feed my Frankenstein – Alice Cooper (inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)

Lolita – Lana Del Ray (inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)

Gothic Lolita – Emilie Autumn (inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)

Don’t Stand Too Close to Me – The Police (inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)

Lord of the Flies – Iron Maiden (inspired by Lord of the Flies by William Golding)

Shadows and Tall Trees – U2 (inspired by Lord of the Flies by William Golding)

Rivendell – Rush (inspired by Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien)

H.W.C –  Liz Phair (inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde)

The Ocean – U2 (inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde)

The Stranger Song – Leonard Cohen (inspired by The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren)

Angelene – PJ Harvey (inspired by Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes by J. D. Salinger)

Been Down So Long – The Doors (inspired by Counterculture Classic by Richard Farina)

Scentless Apprentice – Nirvana (inspired by Perfume by Cobain)

My Blaeken Year – Patti Smith (inspired by Unknown by William Blake)

We are the Dead – David Bowie (inspired by 1984 by George Orwell)

Banana Co – Radiohead (inspired by One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Hurricane – Thirty Seconds to Mars (inspired by The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)

Sympathy for the Devil – Rolling Stones (inspired by The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov)

Prince Caspian – Phish (inspired by Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis)

Narnia – Steve Hackett (inspired by Narnia Series by C. S. Lewis)

Mock Turtle Song – Steely Dan (inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

Alice – Tom Waits (inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

Barefoot Children – Jimmy Buffett (inspired by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

Return to Pooh Corner – Kenny Logins (inspired by The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne)

Charlotte Sometimes – The Cure (inspired by Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer)

Tom Sawyer – Rush (inspired by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain)

Bucking Bronco – Scarth Locke (inspired by Bucking Bronco by Shel Silverstein)

Dollars and Cents – Radiohead (inspired by No Logo by Naomi Kiens)

Atrocity Exhibition – Joy Division (inspired by Condensed Novels by JG Ballard)

Dead – Pixie (inspired by The Bible)

Jocasta – Noah and the Whale (inspired by Sophocles by Oedipus Rex)

Yertle the Turtle – Red Hot Chilli Peppers (inspired by Dr. Seuss’s Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss)

Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Rick Wakeman (inspired by Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne)

Are Friends Electric – Gary Numan (inspired by Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick)

Friendly Fires – Pala (inspired by Island by Aldous Huxley)

Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by Eurythmics (inspired by 1984 by George Orwell)

by Daria Morgan and Verity Russell