Writing better lyrics: the essential guide to powerful songwriting from generating ideas to developing verse and beyond

Pattison, Pat 1942-

Writing better lyrics: the essential guide to powerful songwriting from generating ideas to developing verse and beyond / Pat Pattison - 1 ed. - Cincinnati: Writer's digest books, 1995 - 195 p.

Introduction
1.- Object writing: The art of the diver
2.- Making metaphors
3.- Learning to say no: Building worksheets
4.- Clichés: the sleeping puppy (a case study)
5.- Verse development
6.- Verse development and power positions
7.- Travelogues: verse continuity
8.- Stripping your repetition for repainting
9.- Perspectives
10.- Point of view: second person and the hangman
11.- Point of view: second person as narrative
12.- Dialogue and point of view
13.- Meter: something in common
14.- Meter: two by two
15.- Form follows function: building the perfect beast
16.- The great balancing act: courting danger on the high wire
17.- Song forms: (Im) potent packages
18.- Song forms: (Im) potent packages II
19.- Process, Afterword, Index

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