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Top 5 Exercises for Coming Up With Great Song Lyric Ideas—#1: Sense Writing.
7 December 2022
In this series, I’ll go through my all-time Top 5 Exercises for generating lyric ideas, whether I’ve got…
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My 6 Favourite Books of 2021
2 January 2022
Top 3 Fiction A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik I snuck this one in in the last week of…
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George Saunders, Janis Ian, and Paul Simon—Where Meaning Comes From in Story
12 December 2021
In a recent newsletter by one of my favourite writers, George Saunders, he writes of one of his…
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Drunk in the day – and other tips on writing well
26 October 2021
Writes William Zinsser in, “On Writing Well”: …you have to strip your writing down before you can build…
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Generating Ideas for Lyrics
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The Best Method for Writing a Good Song
11 August 2021
From a recent interview with John Mayer: “Whenever I want to write a big song, I can’t. And…
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Why write it as a song?
28 June 2021
It’s a question I ask of myself all the time. Why write this idea as a song, and…
Generating Ideas for Lyrics
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120 Sense Writing Prompts
17 June 2021
If you’re already familiar with Sense Writing (aka Object Writing), feel free to skip ahead to the prompts…