Imagery
- Use sensory details
An engaging opening that drops the reader in
Clear sense of movement or tension
Emotional connection
1
“I wanna learn music composition, do you have any advice?”
“Sure: start with music theory, and the rest gets much simpler.”
I’ve heard that countless times. Tutorials, Reddit threads, YouTube comments…they all say the same thing: learn the rules first, then break them. But I never really started that way. I’d argue real music composition isn’t about any of that; it doesn’t rely on fixed tracks to decide how elements should be arranged. It depends on one thing: QUALIA (the pure feeling of sound). After a long day at school, I head straight to my room and boot up my computer. In my quiet room, the only sound is the desktop fan. I load a piano plugin, click in a few notes, and play them once. If something in the tune sounds off, I change it until it feels right, a little better each time. Like a looping algorithm, I keep breaking and rebuilding until it finally fits. Sometimes I don’t even wear headphones, because they make my ears feel stuffy. And just like that, I sink into the world of music composition.
2
“You will be in charge of the sound design of this film.”
Someone told me that in the filming club I attended in 9th grade, when we were about to start a new film. At that time, I was in a music technology club, which was related to music composition, but I was completely new to music, and I could not compose a complete track yet. But the mission fell on me, so I have to do that.