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March challenge - What's the Score?
julilly:
Yay and you did it right too! One of my biggest fanfic pet peeves (I don't think I ever put this in that thread actually lol) is "song fics" that are 90% lyrics of a song that you may or may not know thus making them totally irrelevant with a paragraph of narrative between each verse. HAAAAATE.
Did I mention I hate it?
FrickFrackGirl:
--- Quote from: julilly on March 02, 2012, 11:42:50 AM ---Yay and you did it right too! One of my biggest fanfic pet peeves (I don't think I ever put this in that thread actually lol) is "song fics" that are 90% lyrics of a song that you may or may not know thus making them totally irrelevant with a paragraph of narrative between each verse. HAAAAATE.
Did I mention I hate it?
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Tell us how you REALLY feel about it Julia...lmao!!!
That story is still the best thing I ever wrote, in my own humble opinion. I just thought it would give an example of what a true song fic was. :)
Sakabelle:
I remember reading that when you first posted it, Jen! I love it.
I think I am going to have to upload my song choice to YouTube myself as I can't find it on there. Clearly I need more mainstream music tatses lol
Alexsgirl_ritz:
--- Quote from: julilly on March 01, 2012, 01:12:10 PM ---Think of it like a soundtrack from a movie. While the movie plays out, a song can really compliment the scene. A lot of people think song fics are just typing out a bunch of lyrics and putting some writing in between them but I don't think that's the real intention. Write something that follows the storyline or theme of a song so that if you read that story while listening to the song they would compliment each other.
Ask yourself, what's the song about?
Is it literal? The Call would be an example of a literal story. The song is actually about a phone call gone wrong and the fallout from it.
Is it figurative? In I'm Taking Off Nick isn't actually singing about spaceships and getting in a rocket. The song is about a break-up and getting away from someone even when their "gravity" keeps pulling you in.
Find the story within the song you choose and write a fic to compliment it. You can either follow the story of the song literally or figuratively, so long as the song compliments the story and vice versa. You can even use a song that doesn't necessarily have lyrics, but just seems to suit the story. If the music is dramatic, so should the words on the page be. The music could be romantic, or funny, etc, etc.
Does that help?
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Absolutely, Julilly! Thank you! This is how I understand song fic but I got lost when you said something about instrumental.. .. Thanks for explaining it. You best explained it in your example about American Psycho movie... :)
Rose:
http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10858 My Response to the challenge!
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