Page 95 - Song Maps - A New System to Write Your Best Lyrics - Simon Hawkins

Chapter 6 - What Next?
Congratulations! You now have:
An understanding of the benefits of writing with Song Maps
An understanding of what to do when ideas come at any moment during the day or night
The "songwriter's secret weapon" to writing moving lyrics
A four-step process to start writing with Song Maps
Seven Song Maps to apply to your writing
An approach to writing with each Song Map
The foundation to start building your idea bank of writable ideas and, if you have completed the exercises in the Song Map Workbook, you have seven writable ideas to take into your next writing session or co-write.
In this chapter, I want to give you some ideas about what to do next: where to find more Maps for yourself, how to combine or alter Song Maps, and how to apply them to different song forms. Finally, I'll talk about some advanced Song Mapping techniques. If you are following along with the Workbook, by the end of this chapter you will have an extra five Song Maps to work with. Enjoy!
Where to find more Song Maps?
Song Maps can be found everywhere you hear a song. Whether you're driving down the freeway listening to the radio, shopping with muzak in the background, killing it in the gym to a stirring tune or worshiping at your church. As long as there is a lyric, there is a Map of some sort.
I loved reading Austin Kleon's book Steal Like an Artist, in which he says,
"Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist says, 'I steal them.'"
He also quotes the late David Bowie, saying,