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Average Words Per Song And The 80/20 Rule

December 26, 2007 By Graham English

In preparation for my 2008 song-a-week project, I wanted some numbers to give me an idea of how much writing I would need to do. Using the 80/20 rule—only 20 percent of my writing will make the cut while 80 percent will go into the waste … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: 2008, 80/20 rule, GTD, lyric writing, Object Writing, productivity, Songwriting, songwriting process, time-management

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 06-21-07

June 21, 2007 By Graham English

Andrea Stolpe, an award winning songwriter with writing credits for top artists like Faith Hill, shares some powerful and unique songwriting tips from her new book, Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps to Effective Storytelling. Andrea was kind enough … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, Music Education Tagged With: advice, Andrea Stolpe, Berklee, hit songwriting, hit songwriting tips, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, hooks, interviews, lyric writing, Object Writing, podcasts, Songwriting, songwriting process, songwriting tips, storytelling, tips

Random Word Generator

June 4, 2006 By Graham English

Just found a new and free random word generator. It creates random sentences and paragraphs too. But the best part is random word plus. You can choose the word type and the word complexity. If you were to add syllables and stress you would have a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: brainstorming, creativity, CreativityHacks, lyric writing, Object Writing, random word generator, Songwriting, songwriting tools, stress, syllables, words

Sexy Object Writing Word Generator

March 22, 2006 By Graham English

Yesterday I posted how to get your creative juices flowing with object writing. Today I found a great site that you can use to randomly generate objects to write about. It's more of a surprise word generator than a random word generator because you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: cool, creativity, dictionary, Object Writing, random word generator, thesaurus, tools, writing

Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

March 21, 2006 By Graham English

Give me 5 minutes and I'll show you how to instantly find unique and interesting details to put into your lyrics. The technique is called Object Writing and it's so ridiculously easy that you'll be pissed you didn't know about it sooner. I learned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: abstract, chorus, creativity, CreativityHacks, details, don't tell, emotions, heart, lyric writing, meaning, Object Writing, Pat Pattison, perspective, rhyme, rhythm, senses, show, Songwriting, SongwritingHacks, verses, writing, writing lyrics

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