Weekly Prompt: Electronic Dance Music versus Country & Western
You don’t need to dance all night or steal the dog, just write a good story.
Welcome to the first weekly challenge for March, where our theme is March to your own Drummer, a musical challenge to tease our muse onto the dancefloor.
Electronic Dance Music
The noisy dance music of club and music festival life, the soundtrack of my misspent youth. Although my snobby musical ear at that age would not be seen dead dancing to very same commercial tracks my daughters and I now boogie to every morning over our breakfast.
Here’s our favourite morning track as an example, but use your own if you want. EDM lends itself to upbeat stories and the more techno sounding stuff often has a Sci-Fi feel. Let’s see what it inspires for you.
Country & Western
I know absolutely nothing about this genre besides some poor sod is usually being broken up with and she’s stealing his pickup and his dog, too. Poor guy. If EDM is not your thing, this is your fallback option.
My mother-in-law absolutely loved Reba, so that’s what you’re gonna get from me as an example. Songs like this make me think of midwestern romance gone wrong. Let’s see what you do with it.
You don’t need to use either of these songs, just pick your favourite or least hated song from either of these genres and write a story that it inspires.
Headphones on, eyes closed, and go!
Challenge Requirements
Your story must:
- Tell us a fictional story inspired by your song choice.
- Be min 100 and max 1000 words long, excluding the title, subtitle, and any post-story bio/links. (We use Medium’s own word count feature.)
- Use “EDM” as one of your five tags. We recommend Fiction, Flash Fiction and maybe your genre too. But it’s your choice.
- Please link back to the prompt so others can find it easily.
- Oh, and don’t forget to share your song at the end!
Example Story:
First published story for this prompt goes here.
