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Question of the Day - Part 4
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Rose on July 23, 2012, 10:35:10 AM ---I agree, that's a great analogy. There's some things I throw at them cause I knew at the get go that would be their "fate". But then on other things they have their free will which changes up my plans a bit, but not always the destination, just the journey there typically. Like in RMTW, Nick was NOT supposed to tell Kevin as early as he did. But as I wrote that chapter, I knew Nick not telling Kevin wouldn't work. It was too out of character and Nick made that choice for me lol.
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That's exactly how I went about writing Curtain Call. I played God and decided on the things that were outside my characters' control, but I let them make their own decisions about things they could control and went with what they decided, even if it wasn't what I would have chosen for them. It worked out well that way. Like you said, we can decide their fate, but not always the journey it will take to get them there.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Rose on July 23, 2012, 02:27:17 PM ---Have you guys ever had a story, or a chapter that seemed to have been purely inspired by a song that comes on randomly?
"Safe and Sound" from the Hunger Games soundtrack came on my computer, and it's pretty much fueled an entire Undead chapter. I feel like the entire chapter embraces that song and I can see the scenes in my head like a movie going to that song like a soundtrack.
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I don't know about randomly, but there are definitely some songs that I've listened to and thought, "Wow, I have to put this in a story." The song "Annie" by James Blunt inspired my short story "The World Will Know Your Name." "Siberia" inspired a certain scene in BMS. "Taking Over Me" by Evanescence has inspired a couple of story ideas I have yet to write.
I used "Just Want You to Know" in the beginning of Curtain Call, for no other reason than that I needed a BSB song that would work musically for what I was imagining, and that one did. But the more I listened to the lyrics as I was writing that story, the more I realized that it fit it perfectly, like I'd planned it that way all along. It's weird when that happens too.
Carter-Orange:
Usually I don't listen to music or anything whilst writing, but when Muse released their Resistance CD a couple of years ago, the song Resistance inspired me to write a short story (which I called Resistance and it was a Take That story).
mare:
--- Quote from: Rose on July 23, 2012, 03:27:46 PM ---Fail Mare, fail LOL
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I know! I don't have one single song on my iPod even lol :(
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 23, 2012, 04:23:30 PM ---I don't know about randomly, but there are definitely some songs that I've listened to and thought, "Wow, I have to put this in a story." The song "Annie" by James Blunt inspired my short story "The World Will Know Your Name." "Siberia" inspired a certain scene in BMS. "Taking Over Me" by Evanescence has inspired a couple of story ideas I have yet to write.
I used "Just Want You to Know" in the beginning of Curtain Call, for no other reason than that I needed a BSB song that would work musically for what I was imagining, and that one did. But the more I listened to the lyrics as I was writing that story, the more I realized that it fit it perfectly, like I'd planned it that way all along. It's weird when that happens too.
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You didn't plan JWYTK? I thought you did lol. I really like how you bookended it too, having it in the beginning and at the end. I feel like Curtain Call almost personifies that song. I've had that happen, where I use a song casually and it turns out it fits better than I ever planned.
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