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Richard Solleveld

The Biggest Tree Of All

A short introduction. 2 Descripe the current situation
I’m a songwriter for a year now. 3. Descripe a goal
I wrote about 50 lyrics in 1 year, mainly cause I’m in between jobs. So 4. Descripe how to accomplish this
I have had my up and downs and wanted to share it with you. 5. Create a situation which is very recognisable

My tips when you’re stuck: Believe me, I got stuck a lot of times. When My results were surprising, didn’t know I had it in me. Go ahead and
you’re stuck on a sentence: delete not just the sentence, delete the try it. Good luck with writing!
whole verse and start over, instead of looking for a word to rhyme. I
once got stuck for 2 hours and got moody looking for a rhyme. When Now on to Christmas.
your really stuck you should consider this option. I wrote a Christmas song and I wanted it to be
different from the rest and to be about now: 2019.
My tips for a writersblock: I work a lot with
assignments like: 1. It’s about showing off, a need to have the most beautiful, expensive
tree and decoration, totally
• Has to be funny and have a long chorus forgetting what Christmasmas is all about.
• Write something where you only use three sentences in verse, instead 2. Then also, the opposite, its all because of love, in the chorus.
of four
• Write using a storytelling spine, for example this one. The question for the listeners will be:

The Story Spine: Pixar’s 4th Rule of Storytelling: 1. All this showing off is crazy, waste of money. There are other ways to
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aerogrammestudio. prove this.
com/2013/03/22/the-story-spine-pixars-4th-rule-of-storytelling/amp/ 2. Or it’s ok, cause this persons aim is to make the other person see
how big his/ her love is.
Or use this link, this one is very helpful
https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pix- Wanna read more lyrics?
ars-22-rules-of-storytelling/ http://www.geencovers.nl/
Then go to Lyrics-English (at the bottom)
and choose a category
In short a short version: Or follow me on facebook
1. Choose a character who’s easy to indentify with https://m.facebook.com/geen.covers?refid=8

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