What's the intro music to the story you're currently working on? The song that plays as the opening titles are rolling (once it's been adapted for TV or film of course). Maybe the song sums up your theme, or maybe the lyrics foreshadow some major event, or maybe the music describes your main character, or the mood of the opening scene? Short story, novel, novella, whatever. Please include your story title and a music video. ... The Little Wyrmington Ladies Psychic Questing Circle
I have whole playlists for my writing projects. For the current one (The Otherside Series), it'd be this song:
For TNT? Ministry - N.W.O. For TC? Hmm. Mongolian chant? That would be later. Mostly it's set in the 80s, so Cool Jerks probably.
I have a story about anti-exorcists who save devils in possessions gone wrong. After saving the girl (the succubus), they do donuts in a hearse on the victim's lawn. This is what they have cranked on their radio. Then they all go out clubbing. La fine.
This is a very good question that's giving me some more ideas about my character. Something in a chill psychobilly maybe, opening credits rolling over him driving through the city, Sopranos-style, but LA. Shitty blue Fiero, carved wood box filled with vials in the passenger seat, as he pulls up towards a house he pops the cassette tape (yes, it's set in the present day) out of the stereo, interrupting the song, and pops in some unlabeled Yanni-type new age shit sorry crap sorry again, stuff.
For my NaNo project last year that I've begun to rewrite - 'The Silver Chalice' (or 'Daughter of the Dawn' not sure which). Female teenage protagonist. The usual evil v's good stuff. (Pray for the Girls: by Black Francis of The Pixies)
"Mona Lisas and Madhatters" by Elton John is a perfect summary of my MC Alexei's experience in New York--especially Verse 2. Alexei is a classical musician who defected from the Soviet Union on his own at 18, and I can imagine this playing over the opening credits as we see Alexei walking home after a late-night shift at the restaurant and going straight to his piano to work on the film score he's composing. (In the novel, Alexei is an Elton John fan and mentions this song as his favorite.) (clarity edit)
"turn around and say good morning to the night" is one of my favorite song lyrics ever. I like the song overall, but damn those nine words are genius.
Mine too. Sometimes I wish I had Bernie Taupin's brain for just one day. ETA: Also, the words "trash can dream". Damn, why can't I do that?
It's hard to pick a song! My story is called "Zombie" because the POV acts like one. They kill and, for the most part, don't feel bad at all. I'll go with I Am Machine by Three Days Grace. It talks about not feeling human due to lacking emotions, and I think that fits perfectly. "I don't like what I am becoming, wish I could just feel something..."
I've chosen two this time. One for the intro and one for the outro: The Hero of Castles (or 'Maggie & Paddy go on Holiday') - semi-mythic supernatural romp across the United Kingdom and through time. Intro: this one's for aging rock chick Maggie, I can see her dancingdlike aamad grandma to this. 'its also the name of the van they go on the run in. Outro: this one's for Paddy, his lost childhood and the old Celtic magic that he's linked to.
Fun thread! The only story of mine with a built-in soundtrack is The Dolores Finnegan Yuletide Massacre - a Musical: Intro Track 1 Outro I'm gonna have to think some about other stories.
Currently working on a fantasy story based around vikings. Vikings go on a journey, storm hits, ship sink, only the MC survives. She (yeah, viking ladies went on voyages too) now has to find her way home somehow. But without knowing where she is, no one speaking her language, everyone is hostile and monsters everywhere, that's a hell of a lot easier said than done. So to set the mood?
For my dragon novel FireKind. Not personally a fan of Loreena or Enya, but this is probably the kind of thing that would suit the story if it was on telly/film. Or some kind of nordic Viking folk stuff that I haven't heard yet.
... It's this story after my Halloween story I want to market at the adolescent / family audience. This is my Part two change up shake up for after Halloween. I'd admit my theme song is for 6- 10 year olds and Saturday Morning Cartoons and stuff, but, even adolescents get nostalgic, and this theme made me lol. Same arrangement but original music and lyrics just naming my star character Jessica and what she has to do and why she has to do it, so, saving her daughter Mary but being stuck in her present which is in our future to our witch burning past by sending stuff back to her daughter who believes it's good sorcery.
The acoustic part would work as the intro to one of my WIPs. I also think it nicely fits the overarching theme and plot. I like the rest of the song of course; might work well as an outro. Likewise, this song would fit "No Man's Land" thematically, in terms of lyrics and instrumentation. --- Haven't thought about what the intro would be for my other WIP, Epoch Coda, but this is the outro.
The idea for "Epoch Coda" was actually inspired by several different songs (including the title) but I don't know if they'd fit a movie OST, especially as the end credits start rolling. "Emarosa" is where the name of my character "Emma Rose" comes from. It stuck for other, more significant reasons.
