Sure I often get inspired from songs too. I take them and make them into stories. But here's the strange thing, the songs that inspire me are not the kind of songs that tell a story, they're the allegorical, abstract type; kind of like poems which suppose I deconstruct in my head and build them up again anew, turn them into an entirely different thing. Sometimes I take the bottom line of the song and make it the bottom line of my story and other times I just pick up a vague phrase or a "picture" and fish out a plot element, a metaphor or a theme... Anything really. In the end when the story is done you can't tell it derived from anything, I guess because the things I had to say got in the way.
And it has once or twice happened to me that a classical music piece got me so deep in the zone that I dropped everything and zoned out for about an hour or so and kept writing even when the sonata was over. And I swear, the frickin armageddon could have set the world on fire and I wouldn't have noticed a thing! It was the most incredible experience.
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 07:34 pm
