![]() For example, when it comes to lyrics I always have the music and melody first, so I’ll create a Notes file for the song and just write lyrics as I come up with them. I’ve gotten pretty good at feeling instinctively which music or lyrics I come up with are worth remembering, and I rarely write or record anything that I don’t see specific potential in. If you’re starting from scratch it’s good to just push stuff out so you’ve got material, but if you’ve got one or two specific songs that just feel extra special if you can nail it, there’s no shame in taking extra time with those.Įdit: that being said, this isn’t really my process. Also, journal stuff and you'll find plenty of good ideas to nurse to health If you just write the first things that come to your mind for 10 or so minutes, with no rhyming schemes or meter in mind, you'll start to get some emotional stuff to the page that you wouldn't have otherwise arrived at. I'm talking like, basest-level word association, just-get-your-hand-moving-across-the-paper stuff. Speaking from experience, I've polished idea nuggets (or "half-decent bits" as Joe calls them) from just the most primal free-writing in a journal. "We don't need to chase each other" implies sort of an interesting backstory.Ī side note for the OP, ( u/Additional-Mushroom4), I don't think speed writing has to be restricted to writing lyrical, poetic lines either. I'd be rewriting for a "tired" love song, where the narrator is exhausted by a hard-to-get/high-maintenance mind game, daydreaming about some sort of "lazy", mellow love affair instead. It has the potential to look at some of those cliches from a slightly different angle. ![]() ![]() Yes, there are plenty of love song cliches in there, but this has a little nugget of an idea that could be edited/shaped into something. If it were me, the speed-written line that jumps out to me the most is "We don't need to chase each other." etc.
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