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Daryn Wright

The ball has dropped. Fireworks are going Your resolution may be to exercise more,
off marking the beginning of a new year. get fit, or gain muscle. Apply this to your

Everyone has been celebrating the years end. lyric by evaluating the content. Do the
one for you, but we are all in this together. Do they stay on point? Is the hook strong
The year may have been a good one or a bad words have enough impact on the message?

Not one of us will truly remain in the
enough?
previous year, rebelling, refusing to go into
the new year and new decade. If we want to Your resolution may be to organize your life
Do Not time to time and see what has become our Do your lyrics follow a natural and
or not, we all reflect back on the past from
better. Do you have your music in order?
new lives. For some it will be the same old
chronological pattern? Does each verse
follow the same pattern?
thing. For others a bright new beginning.

Series: It is now that we make our New Years Whatever your resolution, be sure to apply

the same resolution to your lyrics. This is
resolutions.
a time to get out lyrics you put away a long
The holidays are over. A new year, and a
songs you wrote a long time ago and
new decade has begun. This is time we take time ago. Take a new look at old lyrics or
evaluate them. This is a good indication
a good look at ourselves. Often, we look at
Do Not our down falls and determine to make how you have grown in your writing skills.
If you have not made enough progress in
resolutions to fix our down falls, or to make
drastic changes in our lives. The truth is,

most of us will give up after a couple of your writing skills, then maybe it is time to
evaluate your resolutions and include your
weeks because the changes we intend to
lyric writing as part of it.
Drop make are far too different from the normal Accomplishing your resolution will have an
routines and life styles we live.
everlasting effect on your life. Winning at
a goal will only lead to more confidence in
Take a good hard look at what our
The Ball resolution is for our every day life, and apply your journeys.
the same thing to our lyric writing. If we
have the same resolution in varied aspects of Synchronizing your efforts.
our lives, it will make it easier to stay f
ocused and determined to accomplish those The ball has dropped, marking a new

goals. beginning and a new year, and though the
ball has been dropped, DO NOT DROP
Your resolution may be to lose weight. Not THE BALL on your goals.
just any weight, but in specific areas of your
body. We can apply this to our lyrics by Have a happy new year. May all of your
evaluating its content. Can the lyric say the goals become accomplishments.
same thing with less words? Is it too wordy
or too long? Does the song build up to a Written by Daryn Wright
climax, or does it start strong and fall short

as it progresses? www.reverbnation.com/darynwright

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