If you’re a songwriting jack-of-all-trades like myself, you may not even think about it anymore—when it’s time to write, you set up your instrument. You warm up your voice. You take it all on at once. …
9 Simple Object Writing Tweaks
This week I’ve been singing the praises of object writing, a creative writing exercise that I learned from the book Writing Better Lyrics by Berklee professor Pat Pattison. I’ve outlined the …
How to Write Vividly Descriptive Lyrics
photo by Hillary Tozier Have you ever read a line so descriptively vivid and lifelike that you feel like you lived it yourself? Writers spend years of their lives—if not decades—fine-tuning this art …
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