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

[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....

[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.

[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*