SC73: Teen TV

Writing from a place of fantasy and nostalgia

Hi friends,

It’s week two of new Song Club and we’re headed in a vastly different direction from last week. We’re going to be playful, and silly, and indulgent. I can’t wait!

Here’s this week’s prompt:

Everyone has soapy teen dramas they loved from their youth. Loved, or loathed but watched anyway. They were full of crushes, romance, big feels, scandals, and they always had iconic credits music.

This week, your task is to write the song that would accompany the soapy teen drama of YOUR adolescence. Spend some time free writing down the dark passages of your memory and the distant past. What kind of show would yours have been? Straight up drama like Dawson’s Creek (aging myself here) or maybe something with a fantasy overtones like Buffy? Whatever it is, write a theme song for it that would make you bop around and get all excited during the credits.

I’ll be sharing what I write this weekend. I hope you do too!

Godspeed,
Lucy