My guest this week says his entire novel was triggered by just one song – Nobody Wins by Kris Kristofferson. He’d had the idea rolling around in his head as a vague kind of fancy, but the Kristofferson song was a sudden technicolor epiphany, making sense of the half-formed ideas, giving him a final scene. And after a lot of thrashing, editing and a good deal of other music, he has a psychological thriller about a group of guys who decide to take a voyage of self-discovery to a deserted island. If you’ve followed this series for a while you’ll recognise his name as he’s been here before – he is Andrew Lowe, and he’s on the Red Blog with his Undercover Soundtrack.
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#1 by Gail L. Winfree on July 19, 2017 - 12:08 am
Interesting. My WIP takes its cue from another Kristofferson song, The Pilgrim, Chapter 33.
#2 by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris on July 20, 2017 - 6:26 am
I think I’d better start listening to him!