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How to use Places
In working with Places it might be helpful to answer the following questions:
1. What is the central theme or idea you want the title to represent? Could this work with two or three different places? How would the dynamic of different places impact this central theme or idea? When you find this, it will become your Chorus idea.
2. Where does the story start? What does that place look like? What senses can you draw on? Who is there? What are they like? This is V1.
3. Where does the story move on to? What does it look like? What senses can you draw on this to show what this new place is like? How does it differ from V1? This is V2.
4. What does this all mean? What is the payoff? Can the story resolve? How can it relate to the listener in today's time? What lessons can be drawn from this story? These are ideas you can use in your Bridge.
Example of a Places writable idea
You could argue that there are elements of this Places Map in "When You Lose Your Dad": in a mall, at a church and "in the mirror." But here's another writable idea, this time about a childhood sweetheart, just to illustrate it further.
Writable idea: "How Many Times"
Verse 1 – Place 1
Driving past the little school where we met Memories flood back, I miss you
Please tell me...