• Writing Training Ground Week 5 Complete!

    Have some copy paste!

    Theme: Write about a Pony Holiday
    # Submissions: 25

    Week 7 theme:


    Write a story inspired by a song.


    Have some rules/suggestions after the break!



    Make sure your submission has the following in the DA description:
    1. Tags (Normal, Shipping, etc)
    2. Description of the Story
    3. A link to the song you used! Even if it's just the band's homepage.


    :iconkitsuneymg:'s recs:
    [Normal] Alive by POD [link]
    [Shipping] I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace[link]
    [Comedy] My Evil Plan to Save the Word by Five Iron Frenzy[link]
    [Sad] Who Wants to Live Forever? by Queen [link]
    [Grimdark] Mutakraskish by Dethklok [link]
    [Random] It's the End of the World as We Know It by REM [link]
    [Crossover] Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton [link]


    :iconebonmane:'s recs:
    [Normal] Wasted Hours by Arcade Fire [link]
    [Shipping] All of The Lights by Kanye West (SEIZURE WARNING)[link]
    [Comedy] Neurotica by King Crimson [link]
    [Sad] Wake by The Antlers [link] (Bonus points for listening to the Hospice album all the way through without wanting to cry)
    [Grimdark] The Gardner by The Tallest Man on Earth [link]
    [Random] They’re coming to take me away by Napoleon XIV[link]
    [Crossover] Captain Planet Credit Theme [link]

    23 comments:

    1. Yay for more writing training ground entries.

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    2. Aw... How about writing songs inspired by a story/the show...? =I

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    4. 5 is over and your showing us 7? i know its early seth but damn.

      think I'll take part this week

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    5. Could it be just the beginning of a story that I'm writing based on a song?

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    6. I did pretty crappily this week didn't I? But then again punctuation was never my strong suit.

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    7. damn my newbieness to all this...

      where do I post the story once its finished?

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    8. @Templar if you get this message.

      Submit it to the groups gallery folder after submitting it to deviantart. Likewise you could ask the group for assistance.

      I will now shamelessly plug myself. My weeks 1,3 and two 5's were decent, maybe my week 4 too. Punctuation tends to rue the day I existed.

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    9. @D. Shadows

      Cheers, just found my old deviant account :P I'm gonna start working on it now

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    10. I assume the recs are just advice...we can choose any sone we want, right?

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    11. [Grimdark-Comedy] "Wrong Way" by Sublime

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    12. [Grimdark] Funeral Hymn by Ataraxie.
      (Album: Slow Transcending Agony)

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    13. @ MiloSaysRelax
      Of course, choose anything you want.
      It said based on 'a' song, not based on these suggestions.

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    14. [Shipping] Honey and the Bee by Owl City
      [Sad] Apples by Crimson Arrow Link----> http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hp#!/crimsonarrow?sk=app_178091127385

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    15. Wait, are the list of stories on that Blogspot linked the ones that were accepted?
      Damnit...just when I thought I'd written a good short story.

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    16. Yes, it can be just the beginning of something. The point of this group is to encourage writing every week (practice makes perfect and all that), so whatever you find manageable.

      And yes, the Blogspot wrap up is a comprehensive list of what all was submitted for the week.

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    17. You're actually encouraging people to do songfics?

      Erm...sorry, but I thought that songfics were THE example of sturgeon's law in fanfictions (which are already THE example of sturgeon's law in media).

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    18. @banjo2E

      It's just a twist to help us develop. If nothing spectacular comes out of it, it's still good practice. And who knows what might happen? Good writing can still come from the most cliched of things.

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    19. @banjo2E

      I think it's more "inspired by a song" type of fic than the "weave a story through song lyrics" type. I assume they're looking for a legit bit of fiction so actually quoting the song might be frowned on.

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    20. @U.H.

      That would kind of make it a bad thing that one of my three stories is a three parter with two song fics in the beginning with completely rehashed lyrics.

      The other two stories will be more successful because they don't quote the lyrics at least once.

      I just wonder what the reaction to them will be at the next writers wrap up for week-7. Of course songs 'inspire' song fictions so yeah it's bound to happen.

      I believe they will enforce a fiction cap on me for this, still the better part of four days to write at least seven more song inspired fictions.

      Sure my writing is poorly editted, but I've got spirit and they've yet to stump me on idea's.

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    21. Ok, so... inspired by a song... how about if the song is a random video game BGM... or a remix of that... I can't think random, but Sweet Memories of Earth... Oh god! It's perfect!

      BTW "Somewhere Only We Know" is the best MLP fanfic ever!!! Ya, it was made before this event but just wanted to say that.

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