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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cincinnati: Writer's digest books, 1995Edition: 1 edDescription: 195 pISBN:
  • 1-58297-064-5
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.42164 P321 wri
Summary: 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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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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