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Trevor Dimoff

What’s Your Lyric Writing Love Story?

The Middle of Your Story Parts of a Popular Song will help you organize your
lyric writing for each song section.
Where are you now in your songwriting journey?
Share Your Love Story:
What are you working to improve?
Tell others about your story, either the prose or
What can you confidently write? song version!

How do you feel while you write? Trevor Dimoff is a songwriter and songwriting
teacher at epicsongwriting.com…
What does it feel like when you finish a song lyric?
If you’re interested in writing the lyrics and music
What’s your emotional reward from lyric writing? to your own songs you’ll love: How to Write a Song
Chorus
How Your Story Might End

What are your big songwriting goals?

What do you want to accomplish with your lyric
writing?

How do you want to feel when you’re writing lyrics?

Who do you want to co-write with?

What’s on your songwriting bucket list?

Putting Your Story Together

Once you’ve explored your story in point form, start
editing your ideas… choose the best and put them
in an order that makes sense. Add poetic language,
metaphors, allusions as you would with song lyrics.

Write Your Story as a Song! (Bonus Exercise) Write Away’s editor, Jane Shields, has agreed to
consider publishing your story in next month’s
Choose a moment or emotional experience in your issue.
story to transform into a song lyric, perhaps a
chorus, a verse or an entire song. Email your Lyric Writing Love Story /Song Lyric
headed Lyric Writing Love Story to:
If you’re new to lyric writing you can read: jane@writeawaymagazine.co.uk
How Do I Start Writing Lyrics? (Write Away, Janu-
ary 2019, p15) Submissions must be received by February 21, 2020.
and Turning Good Lyrics into Great Lyrics (Write Publication is solely at the discretion of the editor
Away, Nov 2019, p8) and may be edited for content and length.

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