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