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I've occasionally written stories specifically to songs. I have heaps more in my head that I've yet to write. Usually what happens is I'll be listening to a song and an image just appears/crystalises in my head, and then I listen again and read through the lyrics and the song's complete story forms...

A few Snow Patrol songs have fuelled the magicallollesbians world, though I've only written one so far, to Run (warning: scenes of (magical) war). The adventures of magicallollesbians continues in Make This Go On Forever, Set The Fire To The Third Bar, Hands Open and You're All I Have. In my head, at least.


Last year on a train trip in Japan I listened to The Killers' Goodnight, Travel Well on repeat for over an hour because there was (quite obviously, if you read the lyrics :p) a story of love and the destruction of the Earth, and I've been sloooowly working on writing that out ::

To cast my shadow by the holy sun

She is wrenching away the security-blanket so many people don't know they hold.

She turns her head, away from the universe, and sees the darkness thickening behind her. What she had taken years to train into usable wings now spreads out, unbidden and unnoticed except on the most deepest level of her mind. It already almost reaches two horizons.


There's something about The Killers' lead singer's way of singing that really hits my story buttons. Several songs on Sam's Town have coiled together to make a story about airships and mountains and sacrifice. Also, Muse's album Black Holes & Revelations (plus Resistance maaaaybe?) is toooootally a summary about the war between Heaven and a fledgling atheist state, the search for the missing God, and dark experiments involving souls, but I want to read that one much more than I want to write it, so, hmm...


But I guess I don't really do the more traditional music-inspired writing.