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Inspired by David Mack (the Trek author, not the comics artist):

Pick a song (score or other orchestral music probably works best, but "normal" music might work too), and try to write a short story or part of a larger work to accompany it.

I covered a 2:00 track in about 600 words, or 300 words per minute of music; David Mack covered a 6:35 track in about 3700 words (chapter 1 of A Time to Heal), or 565 words per minute of music. *shrug* Then again, the events in what I wrote occur at a much faster pace than his piece. :)

Date: 2004-10-06 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] terri-osborne.livejournal.com
I think I've done something similar to this already. A B5 story written to and inspired by Viva Forever by the Spice Girls. (Yeah, I know. Leave me alone. :P)

Date: 2004-10-06 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atimson.livejournal.com
*whistles innocently* ;)

Date: 2004-10-06 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scavgraphics.livejournal.com
Well could be worse...could have done it to "Wannabe"

Date: 2004-10-06 01:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steve-mollmann.livejournal.com
When I wrote my Star Trek: Foundation audio adventure "A Choice of Catastrophes", I wrote it with Jim Mortimore's brilliant soundtrack to Doctor Who: "The Rapture" in mind. One of my definite intents and purposes was to write a piece that evoked the same feelings the music did, not neccessarily one that had an exact correspondence to some music.

I'd like to think I succeeded, but to find out I need to actually get around to finishing the sound mixing on it...

Steve

Date: 2004-10-06 03:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atimson.livejournal.com
All I have to say is that I hope he's a better musician than an author, since I wasn't overly impressed with either of his novels that I've read. (From a writing standpoint, they're okay; he just didn't really get a good grasp of the characters in either.)

Hey, why are you here posting? Get back to mixing! *cracks whip* ;)

Date: 2004-10-06 04:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steve-mollmann.livejournal.com
I actually have very little experience with his writing; the only thing I've experienced was his Doctor Who audio drama "The Natural History of Fear," which was really quite good, but also quite strange. He is, however, a genius sound designer (I love to listen to "Embrace the Darkness" for the sound's sheer ability to compel and immerse alone) and a fairly good composer.

And I think a better question is why am I posting when I should be doing my homework...

Steve

Date: 2004-10-06 04:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atimson.livejournal.com
Because you recognize that homework is boring, and trolling LiveJournals is a lot more fun?

Date: 2004-10-06 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atimson.livejournal.com
Err, trolling in the original fishing sense, not flamebaiting....

Date: 2004-10-06 01:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onyahbear.livejournal.com
...I'll do it. Except that it will most definately not be original, which if you know me shouldn't be a surprise. Recent soundtrack shenanigans aside, I've never been a terribly associative person, so I'll be putting all my music to "random" and writing on the first thing to come up.

...

Which turns out to be this little piece of sunshine and light (which, believe it or not, is even more creepy and disturbing with the music).

Eeep.

Date: 2004-10-06 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atimson.livejournal.com
If I lied and said that I was surprised, would you believe me? :)

I'm not sure if I'm associative, or my music lends it better to associations, or both, but before writing I knew exactly what music I wanted to use. Going with something random from mine would be harder, but not impossible. (Well, as long as I got a chance to choose another track if one of my audiobooks that I need to get around to deleting came up. :p)

As for your song—disturbing... was a very good word to describe it. On the other hand, it could serve as fodder for some rather fun psychological torture of characters....

Date: 2004-10-06 06:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onyahbear.livejournal.com
And now you can download it and see exactly what kind of horror I'm facing here. Although, dude, half the lines in that song lend themselves to perfectly resonable fiction all on their own.

...I still can't believe a published author suggested this. It's like a bad meme.

Date: 2004-10-07 05:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atimson.livejournal.com
Well, he didn't directly suggest it. He just mentioned that he did it, and I decided to give it a try. So, I don't know which of us is more to blame. :)

*saves music to listen to once he's done slaving away at his EECS project*

Date: 2004-10-06 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scavgraphics.livejournal.com
I'll have to give that a try....

An exercise I've been wanting to do is to watch a wrestling match and write it out in prose form. I'm fairly lousy at action writing, and tend to really like having characters just talk and talk and talk...

With wrestling, you have an extended fight with characters, action, dialog and a story line....now I just need to do it.

Date: 2004-10-07 05:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atimson.livejournal.com
And, y'know, be able to stomach watching wrestling. :-/

Oddly enough, my problem with action writing is not having enough talk. Whenever I try to put it in, it seems to break the flow of events. So actually, that might be something for me to try, since there's predefined dialogue. :)

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