Odd writing exercise
Oct. 5th, 2004 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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. :)
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. :)
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Date: 2004-10-06 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-06 03:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-06 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-06 01:30 am (UTC)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
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Date: 2004-10-06 03:48 am (UTC)Hey, why are you here posting? Get back to mixing! *cracks whip* ;)
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Date: 2004-10-06 04:29 am (UTC)And I think a better question is why am I posting when I should be doing my homework...
Steve
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Date: 2004-10-06 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-06 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-06 01:52 am (UTC)...
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.
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Date: 2004-10-06 04:13 am (UTC)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....
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Date: 2004-10-06 06:05 am (UTC)...I still can't believe a published author suggested this. It's like a bad meme.
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Date: 2004-10-07 05:39 am (UTC)*saves music to listen to once he's done slaving away at his EECS project*
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Date: 2004-10-06 07:53 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2004-10-07 05:43 am (UTC)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. :)