Author: Phöenix Lazare One of the best ways to streamline your lyric writing process is to use creative free-writing. In my songwriting education, I studied a useful exercise called Object Writing, introduced and encouraged by songwriter/educator, Pat Pattison. Object Writing is a timed, sense-based creative writing activity to creatively stimulate, gather new ideas and help to begin the songwriting process. To begin object writing, it is simple:
When object writing, it is important to remember these few things:
I'll give you an example of 5-minute timed Object Write below using the prompt, "Celebration." Celebration: Glitter covers the black and white tiled floor, sticky with Shirley Temple paper umbrella drinks spilled between amateur dance moves. The popular music, so loud I can already hear my ears ringing into tomorrow's late morning, screams through the giant-sized speakers that hug the footprint-studded stage. As I look around the dim lit room, I feel an energy, hopeful but with an emptiness overcast, shadowing like a broken umbrella above forced smiles and intoxicated lust. Yet a comforting presence, observed through the eyes of strangers seeing an evening through to sunrise, lighting a dance floor with a youthful electricity. The subtle scent of stale kettle corn and sweat follow the hallways... Now here it is again, with my favourite parts underlined: Glitter covers the black and white tiled floor, sticky with Shirley Temple paper umbrella drinks spilled between amateur dance moves. The popular music, so loud I can already hear my ears ringing into tomorrow's late morning, screams through the giant-sized speakers that hug the footprint-studded stage. As I look around the dim lit room, I feel an energy, hopeful but with an emptiness overcast, shadowing like a broken umbrella above forced smiles and intoxicated lust. Yet a comforting presence, observed through the eyes of strangers seeing an evening through to sunrise, lighting a dance floor with a youthful electricity. The subtle scent of stale kettle corn and sweat follow the hallways... To take it one step further... I'll construct a verse inspired by elements from my favourite lines: Observed through the eyes of strangers Forced smiles, electric youth Spilling Shirley Temples Between amateur dance moves
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