Odd writing exercise

[hamsterexastris]

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. :)

Comments

[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)

[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

[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.

[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.