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What Are You Writing Next Year?
Want To Go Further in 2020 Than You Did in 2019? you’ve got an impressive list, yes? There’s at least a
page of dreams and ideas in front of you. So much to
Are you willing to spend 30 minutes to get started on do, probably too much. Instead of getting
2020 right now? Why wait for New Year’s Day to overwhelmed be gentle with yourself, dial it back and
start planning and working on your next year! find the best first step:
If you’re serious about improving your lyric writing What can you do consistently over the next year to
and going somewhere with it grab a pen and paper, move towards your dream?
we’ve got some writing to do:
Here are some ideas to get you thinking:
Tell Me About Your Made It Moment....
Knowledge
What’s it feel like when time stops as you reach your
dream goal? You need to know what to do: how to generate
interesting song ideas, how to write effective lyrics,
Shivers? Spotlights? how to structure them into a song...
Are you hearing your words on the radio? Getting To learn more about lyric structure, you could
your first royalty cheque? analyze a song each week.
Stop and imagine it. You could take a lyric writing course and carve out
30 minutes, 4 nights a week to work on it.
Close your eyes and enjoy the feeling of reaching
your songwriting dream! What knowledge would help you achieve your
songwriting dream and how will you learn it?
Now before you let reality crush your dreams and
you start thinking but I can’t. I’ll never, that’s too big Skills
a dream.. write about it!
Knowledge is power, but it takes songwriting skills
Pretend it’s a piece of fiction if it helps. If you want to to create solid lyrics.. What lyric writing skills would
be a writer, write about it, point form is fine: improve your songs?
What would a made it momentfeel like, look like, For more emotional impact with your lyrics spend
sound like? an hour a week building a list of awesome lines you
love.
What knowledge, skills, connections with other
people will help you get to your dream? To make it easier to start new songs, create a list of
titles to refer to when you’re starting a new song and
What steps or smaller goals do you need to get there? brainstorm new title ideas at least once a week.
write at least 10 before you continue.
To practice coming up with lyric ideas quickly, for a
I’m Not Kidding, Write It Down! month spend 10 minutes a day brainstorming ideas
for you latest song.
Write it down to help make it real, go get a pen and
paper, I’ll wait. Seriously... If you want to make more time for songwriting, you
can consistently work on your songwriting a little
Now that you’ve thought about and written about it every day.
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