#Music2WriteBy 31006: /Carnival/ by Natalie Merchant

On this hashtag I plan to share where songs in my playlist fit into my writing. Check the first post in this thread for more information.

/Carnival/, off the /Tiger Lily/ album, is an incredibly sensuous and fevered song. Listening to the track led me to write a space opera novel that took place in a huge asteroid turned into a generation starship. The main character can see dead people. 

Maybe. 

I work to never to establish by events whether she is schizophrenic or has a supernatural power. What she is, is a shaman, and it affects her world view. When she attends a real carnival in the nation of a friend of hers, the nature of the music, dance, alcohol induced bad behavior, and maybe with the help of psychedelics, she has an spiritual experience that sets the tone for the rest of the story.  I wrote the two book series predicated on writing that scene and working outward.

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