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Destination Writing is a type of object writing used by Andrea Stolpe and explored in her book, Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps to Effective Storytelling. In Andrea's own words: "Destination writing …
Object writing is a form of timed freewriting introduced by Pat Pattison in his classic songwriting text, Writing Better Lyrics. A key feature of object writing is that it requires the writer to …
An idea file is anything used to store song ideas and fragments. It could be a notebook, a folder, a digital recorder, a computer file, a Google Docs account, or a shelf of cassettes. Whatever the …
In songwriting, the verse is the section most responsible for advancing the song's central story or theme. Every song contains multiple verses. Each of those individual verses has its own set of …
A song cycle is a collection of songs meant to be experienced together, in sequence. Each song comprises part of a longer story, theme, or idea. An album-length song cycle is usually referred to as …