Songs to write Loving Wives stories to

[VallesMarineris]

I'd like to round out the examples with an English folksong from the 17th century that I suspect many people don't know, "Matty Groves", about a young man who has a special night with the wife of the local nobleman. It doesn't end well. My favorite version was adapted by Fairport Convention, a British 60s-70s rock group known for reviving many great old ballads:

The long instrumental at the end is also a treat.

There's a whole Wikipedia article on the song's history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Groves

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

I've only ever written one Loving Wives story (which was not well received), but I feel this one encapsulates the attitude of that story's readers well:

 

[Actingup]

I've only ever written one Loving Wives story (which was not well received), but I feel this one encapsulates the attitude of that story's readers well:

Dang - I just read it and meant to write 'Five star trolling', but there was a typo...

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

Dang - I just read it and meant to write 'Five star trolling', but there was a typo...

I actually never intended it to be a troll story (although all of the commenters are convinced otherwise), I wrote it as a fun little exercise playing into as many of the interracial cuckolding tropes I could think of and dialing it all up to eleven or twelve. No regrets.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

It takes a fast fast car, to lead a double life...

Modus operandi.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Hank Williams Your Cheatin' Heart

Best Burn the Bitch/Bastard song

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Country songs should be exempt from this. Not fair, they all involve cheatin'. : P

 

[MillieDynamite]

Whatever.

Country songs should be exempt from this. Not fair, they all involve cheatin'. : P

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Whatever.

The : P wasn't enough for you?

 

[Actingup]

Country songs should be exempt from this. Not fair, they all involve cheatin'. : P

Apparently we're going to ban US Country Songs as a response to current events, so it's going to be harder to sing about cheating in Australia.

Back on topic now... Australian band Cold Chisel had a great song, "My turn to Cry", in which he gives his partner permission to play while he's away for work, and returns to find her engaged and pregnant. This performance has an additional twist where, after they had become successful after years of hard grind, they were invited to perform at the 'Countdown Awards', sponsored by a fluffy TV magazine that they didn't think was authentic, and decided to play that song and then change it up to include some new 'Fuck You All' words written for the occasion while they trashed the stage. It was the best burn moment in Australian rock and roll ever.

 

[PapaRomantic]

If we're including country songs, you have to call out "Jolene" by Dolly Parton. Her husband stayed with her and certainly made the right choice.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I NEVER EXISTED is the song that I believe shows what LW is all about, ignoring the... radioactive traits of the community there, as I've heard. I'm not a LW author, but Chase Atlantic has quite a repertoire of songs that fit well for LW.

 

[Actingup]

Hank Williams Your Cheatin' Heart

Best Burn the Bitch/Bastard song

You just did that for the dynamite, didn't you?

 

[MillieDynamite]

You just did that for the dynamite, didn't you?

 

[RetroFan]

I find myself writing to movie soundtracks.

I have a similar thing given I mostly write stories set in the past, I'll listen to songs from the era where my story is set or have them playing in my head, sort of like with the 2000s crime drama 'Cold Case'.

On a similar note, when stories play in my head when I am writing or re-reading them like a movie or TV show, sometimes I see them in footage applicable to the time. For example, my story 'Marcie & Ramona's Sapphic Saturday' which takes place in 1961 I see in black and white, even though I describe colours within it. In my story 'Cindy's Close Encounter' which is set in 1959, I see it in technicolour like films of the era such as 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Gidget'. 'Take Cover From Tracy' which is set in 1974 I see in the odd hue of early colour television in Australia during the era.

One of the odder ones is my Titanic story 'Bad Things Happen On April 15' when I was writing the 1912 scenes I saw them perfectly normally, as though they were playing out of front of me. However, when writing the modern day epilogue, I would see these characters and story events in silent, grainy, jumpy black and white and sepia footage or black and white photos.

Not sure if anyone else has had similar experiences?

 

[WordsIntheWyld]

I have a similar thing given I mostly write stories set in the past, I'll listen to songs from the era where my story is set or have them playing in my head, sort of like with the 2000s crime drama 'Cold Case'.

On a similar note, when stories play in my head when I am writing or re-reading them like a movie or TV show, sometimes I see them in footage applicable to the time. For example, my story 'Marcie & Ramona's Sapphic Saturday' which takes place in 1961 I see in black and white, even though I describe colours within it. In my story 'Cindy's Close Encounter' which is set in 1959, I see it in technicolour like films of the era such as 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Gidget'. 'Take Cover From Tracy' which is set in 1974 I see in the odd hue of early colour television in Australia during the era.

One of the odder ones is my Titanic story 'Bad Things Happen On April 15' when I was writing the 1912 scenes I saw them perfectly normally, as though they were playing out of front of me. However, when writing the modern day epilogue, I would see these characters and story events in silent, grainy, jumpy black and white and sepia footage or black and white photos.

Not sure if anyone else has had similar experiences?

When I work, I usually listen to the music from the game I’m working on. It helps me stay immersed in the world, matching the tone and emotion of the scenes I’m translating.

 

[Actingup]

I have a similar thing given I mostly write stories set in the past, I'll listen to songs from the era where my story is set or have them playing in my head, sort of like with the 2000s crime drama 'Cold Case'.
(snip) ...'Take Cover From Tracy' which is set in 1974 I see in the odd hue of early colour television in Australia during the era.

For my 'Remembering the Storm', which is also about Tracy but mostly set in modern Darwin, I switched between music of the time and contemporary music while writing it. It helped that in the Northern Territory Museum there is an exhibition (recently renovated) that reproduces the vibe of Darwin in 1974 as best they can. It also helped that I've met many Tracy survivors, although I guess nothing can reproduce being there (not that anybody would have wanted to be there). I do think that immersion in the era or the vibe is very useful when writing.

 

[RetroFan]

For my 'Remembering the Storm', which is also about Tracy but mostly set in modern Darwin, I switched between music of the time and contemporary music while writing it. It helped that in the Northern Territory Museum there is an exhibition (recently renovated) that reproduces the vibe of Darwin in 1974 as best they can. It also helped that I've met many Tracy survivors, although I guess nothing can reproduce being there (not that anybody would have wanted to be there). I do think that immersion in the era or the vibe is very useful when writing.

I've been to the Darwin Museum and seen the Cyclone Tracy exhibition which was very interesting, and this definitely helped me write my Christmas story about Tracy in 1974. Being an Australian obviously also helps. My only other story set in Darwin was in the modern day, a fetish/voyeurism story about a young guy perving on three pretty Dutch female tourists hiking through a national park. I'm interested in reading your story Remembering the Storm.

With regards to the advantage of actually being there, I got an interesting comment on a Loving Wives story I wrote set on the Titanic, saying that I had 'borrowed too heavily from many sources'. Given that the Titanic sank in 1912 many decades before I was born, I really had little choice but to write the story from information gained from reading books, watching movies, TV shows and documentaries, online research and once going to a Titanic exhibition and do the best I could to make it authentic. I wasn't on the Titanic, and don't have a time machine to go back and see the lost ship for myself. And I don't have a spare $100K to go in a submersible to see the wreck in person, nor would I really want to after what happened to the Titan a couple of years ago. I just don't know how some people think half the time.

Seeing a story playing in your head like a movie led me to a bit of an embarrassing situation a few years back when I got up early to do some work on a story I was working on called 'Tonya Tiffany & the Twins'. This story set in 1989 was a slacker surfer-dude type comedy that made for popular movies circa 1987-1994 and which I thought the IT crowd might like (spoiler alert - they didn't like it). The scene I worked on that morning was one where the grumpy, long-suffering husband/father had gone to New York for business, and got into a fight with a clown over a cab, the clown pushing him out of the way to steal the taxi ride and calling him a 'God-damned fucking asshole' among other insults yelled at the top of his voice with many people looking on and laughing.

The scene kept playing in my mind after I left for work that morning like I had watched it in a movie, and I just could not stop myself from laughing. And walking through Melbourne laughing seemingly at nothing, people regarded me like I was very strange and most definitely best avoided.

 

[Actingup]

I've been to the Darwin Museum and seen the Cyclone Tracy exhibition which was very interesting, and this definitely helped me write my Christmas story about Tracy in 1974. Being an Australian obviously also helps. My only other story set in Darwin was in the modern day, a fetish/voyeurism story about a young guy perving on three pretty Dutch female tourists hiking through a national park. I'm interested in reading your story Remembering the Storm.

With regards to the advantage of actually being there, I got an interesting comment on a Loving Wives story I wrote set on the Titanic, saying that I had 'borrowed too heavily from many sources'. Given that the Titanic sank in 1912 many decades before I was born, I really had little choice but to write the story from information gained from reading books, watching movies, TV shows and documentaries, online research and once going to a Titanic exhibition and do the best I could to make it authentic. I wasn't on the Titanic, and don't have a time machine to go back and see the lost ship for myself. And I don't have a spare $100K to go in a submersible to see the wreck in person, nor would I really want to after what happened to the Titan a couple of years ago. I just don't know how some people think half the time.

Seeing a story playing in your head like a movie led me to a bit of an embarrassing situation a few years back when I got up early to do some work on a story I was working on called 'Tonya Tiffany & the Twins'. This story set in 1989 was a slacker surfer-dude type comedy that made for popular movies circa 1987-1994 and which I thought the IT crowd might like (spoiler alert - they didn't like it). The scene I worked on that morning was one where the grumpy, long-suffering husband/father had gone to New York for business, and got into a fight with a clown over a cab, the clown pushing him out of the way to steal the taxi ride and calling him a 'God-damned fucking asshole' among other insults yelled at the top of his voice with many people looking on and laughing.

The scene kept playing in my mind after I left for work that morning like I had watched it in a movie, and I just could not stop myself from laughing. And walking through Melbourne laughing seemingly at nothing, people regarded me like I was very strange and most definitely best avoided.

Yes indeed! And re: the Titanic - some professional authors spend years researching their subject, but probably still get told off for lack of realism!

Your Dutch tourist mention makes me laugh (and I'll have to read the story) - when I walked the overland track in Tassie, we did bump into some pretty Scandi tourists bathing, who appeared in a modified form in my 'Map of Tasmania' story. Kakadu and Litchfield are much warmer places for that kind of thing, although there's always the worry of crocs.

 

[Zootonius]

Wonder this time where she's gone
Wonder if she's gonna stay

 

[SmokingFap]

I've honestly never read anything in the Loving Wives category, and don't really know much about the genre. What I do know is that I have seen many, MANY authors complain about all the hatred they get from readers of the stories in this category. So to take it from the other viewpoint, and because this is my favorite song by The Cure, here is the angriest rant I've ever heard. If you've never heard it, it's almost entirely instrumental, but the six or eight lines of lyrics are as vitriolic as the song sounds.

 

[Actingup]

I've honestly never read anything in the Loving Wives category, and don't really know much about the genre. What I do know is that I have seen many, MANY authors complain about all the hatred they get from readers of the stories in this category. So to take it from the other viewpoint, and because this is my favorite song by The Cure, here is the angriest rant I've ever heard. If you've never heard it, it's almost entirely instrumental, but the six or eight lines of lyrics are as vitriolic as the song sounds.

It's coming up as 'unavailable' for me - probably a regional copyright thing. What's the song?

 

[SmokingFap]

It's coming up as 'unavailable' for me - probably a regional copyright thing. What's the song?

It's The Kiss, off of Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. It's completely different than anything else they've ever done. It's literally just Robert Smith wailing on the guitar and screaming about a woman at the end. I never even knew he could play guitar until this song.

 

[SmokingFap]

It's coming up as 'unavailable' for me - probably a regional copyright thing. What's the song?

You also might just look up the live version on YouTube. I like the studio version better, but the live version is pretty powerful.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Here's a light-hearted old Irish folk song about a woman who loved her husband dearly . . . but another man twice as well. It has an ending that's sure to satisfy the BTB crowd.