It might be interesting to create a story, or a collection of stories, with a hidden structural back-story borrowed from some other medium. This might be an intriguing way to infuse a story with the aroma, as it were, of another work — say, the lyrics of a popular song.<\/p>\n
For example, the emotional beats or merely key details of a narrative might trace the imagery of Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, or Jonathan King’s “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon”.<\/p>\n
The story would not literally represent the lyrics of these songs, but would merely use their mysterious imagery as a series of touch points.<\/p>\n
Of course it would not do to be too obvious about this. If you are immersed in reading a story, and you suddenly notice that you’ve just read about a mulatto talking to an albino, and now a mosquito has shown up, I would consider that a fail. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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