FDK: Unforgettable - 4/35 - 05/16/19 02:02 AM
Chapter 4. And now for a little bit of Lois's story.
Driving to a football game on November 2nd, I was listening to Nat King Cole while considering what I could add to my story or how I would expand the outline and notes I'd already written the night before. Paper Moon (the recording I listened to) came on and as I was singing along to the lyrics, inspiration struck. That night much of my story came into focus.
The last scene of Lois's memory in this chapter was heavily influenced by the second movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Number 4 ( Linked here, cued up to the second movement ). The first time I wrote it, it was terrible (seriously ) and the comment I left myself in the margin literally said "lame. fix this." Weeks later, after reading up on how to write this kind of scene, this piece played through my car stereo and it held every emotion I wanted this scene to be. (And here's a link to Unforgettable, the story after which this is named (though it wasn't until the story was almost completely done that I realized what the title would be).
Regardless of whether the music moves you the way it does me, or even if you don't listen to it, I hope you enjoyed this last installment of Part 1.
Keep the feedback coming, good or bad.
Next week starts Part 2!
Driving to a football game on November 2nd, I was listening to Nat King Cole while considering what I could add to my story or how I would expand the outline and notes I'd already written the night before. Paper Moon (the recording I listened to) came on and as I was singing along to the lyrics, inspiration struck. That night much of my story came into focus.
The last scene of Lois's memory in this chapter was heavily influenced by the second movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Number 4 ( Linked here, cued up to the second movement ). The first time I wrote it, it was terrible (seriously ) and the comment I left myself in the margin literally said "lame. fix this." Weeks later, after reading up on how to write this kind of scene, this piece played through my car stereo and it held every emotion I wanted this scene to be. (And here's a link to Unforgettable, the story after which this is named (though it wasn't until the story was almost completely done that I realized what the title would be).
Regardless of whether the music moves you the way it does me, or even if you don't listen to it, I hope you enjoyed this last installment of Part 1.
Keep the feedback coming, good or bad.
Next week starts Part 2!