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re><h1 id="4c69">Headphones on, eyes closed, and go!</h1><figure id="f301"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*n1k2tAZllOvMT6x5HL1jQA.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><h1 id="0f52">Challenge Requirements</h1><p id="b6ef">Your story must:</p><ol><li>Tell us a fictional story inspired by your song choice.</li><li>Be min 100 and max 1000 words long, <b>excluding</b> the title, subtitle, and any post-story bio/links. (We use Medium’s own <a href="https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/215194537-Using-the-story-editor">word count feature</a>.)</li><li>Use “<b>Rock</b>” as one of your five tags. We recommend <i>Fiction</i>, <i>Flash Fiction</i> and maybe your genre too. But it’s your choice.</li><li>Please <b>link back to the prompt</b> so others can find it easily.</li><li>Oh, and don’t forget to share your song at the end!</li></ol><h2 id="ee63">Example Story by Connie Mae Inglis:</h2><div id="c195" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/still-wishing-you-were-here-4a8cb8f302a0"> <div> <div> <h2>Still Wishing You Were Here</h2> <div><h3>From theme prompt: March to your own drummer</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*qjtC3oaADfeieyZLKr832Q.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><figure id="f410"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*dyQ_f1rjFm4Ku_b8HMZSCw.png"><figcaption><b><i>If you love what we do — </i></b><i>say thanks with a <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/microcosm">coffee.</a> </i>❤️</figcaption></figure></article></body>

Weekly Prompt: Psychedelic Rock Versus Classical

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Welcome to the second weekly challenge for March, where our theme is March to your own Drummer, a musical challenge to tease our muse onto the dancefloor.

Psychedelic Rock

This was actually indie rock, but then Connie Mae Inglis, wrote a story inspired by psychedelic rock and this sounded like a far more fun and subconscious stirring genre to play in.

I picked The Beatles because, well, they’re generally pretty damn awesome. Not that this is my favourite song of theirs but it’s pretty far out.

Classical

There are a thousand and one classical songs that could inspire a story, from pew pew science fiction to battlefield sprinting historical fiction.

The Ride of the Valkyries would be a good one, but this has always been my favourite classical soundtrack to mayhem and madness.

Headphones on, eyes closed, and go!

Challenge Requirements

Your story must:

  1. Tell us a fictional story inspired by your song choice.
  2. 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.)
  3. Use “Rock” as one of your five tags. We recommend Fiction, Flash Fiction and maybe your genre too. But it’s your choice.
  4. Please link back to the prompt so others can find it easily.
  5. Oh, and don’t forget to share your song at the end!

Example Story by Connie Mae Inglis:

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