Work Room - Week 21

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Week 20's poll is still going on: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/778354.html which makes this an interesting chance for real time self-examination of what you think that you did well, and where you struggled during the intersection last week.

Maybe more importantly - did you learn anything from that process that you are going to bring to writing this week?

Does knowing the personal nature of the topic, for me, increase the pressure and general sense of dread? ;)

The place to link your new topic entries is http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/779089.html

The place is discuss all the other stuff involved with the topic, and writing, is right here!

Comments

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

Only time I struggled with the intersection this past week is before someone chose me to be their partner. Actually, to be precise I continued to "struggle" even after that, as initially I had no clue how to proceed with the Intersection. However, my partner indicated they wanted to do historical fiction, ideally about a pair of famous twins, and... well, things got a whole lot easier after that.

As for what I learned from the process -- well, at least sometimes it helps my creative process to get feedback/suggestions from someone else. I may not run with the precise idea suggested... but such input may get my creative juices flowing. And thus, I now turn to my fellow Idolers to get such feedback:

When I saw the new prompt, my initial thought ran to showing part of the creative process for developing my saga. You see, when I hear certain tunes I see "visions" in my head, with the action taking place in perfect sync with the music. Essentially, my subconscious mind creates its own private "Music Videos"... but this started happening to me *LONG* before MTV and VH1 were created. Then again, my parents took me to see FANTASIA for the first time in 1969, when I was all of 5 years old. I was enthralled by that movie... and that's probably what fueled my subconscious in this case.

So... What I'd like to do is give a detailed description of one specific "vision"; I think I could put together the rough equivalent of a screenplay, which would describe the action in one specific "vision" of mine while simultaneously listing the lyrics of the song that inspire these "visions". The problem is that while the action in my head is rather exciting, I think reading the action in the form of a screenplay would be as dry as dust.

So... and comments? Suggestions? Responses?

help?

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Maybe make an interpretive dance video set to the music? :)

Screenplays can be very hit or miss in my opinion...

[alien-writings.livejournal.com]

I must admit I don't love reading things in stuff like screenplay format and would not be super-excited about that. Is there a reason you couldn't write your idea as a regular story in more descriptive language with lyrics interspersed? That sounds like it would be less dry.