How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Imbalance
Imbalance is the delicious mess of real life. It is a missed rent payment and a perfect sunrise. It is wanting someone and knowing you ...
How to Write Songs About Engagement
You want a song that makes someone drop the fork and stare at the person across the table. You want a line that makes a partner cry in ...
How to Write Songs About Darkness
You want a song that feels like walking into a room and finding the light switched off on purpose. You want the listener to feel the ch...
How to Write Songs About Teaching
You want a song that teaches without lecturing. You want lines that stick like chalk on denim and a chorus that students hum on the bus...
How to Write Songs About Aging
Want to write a song about getting older without sounding preachy or like a Hallmark card on repeat? Good. This guide brutally explains...
How to Write Songs About Followership
You want a song that pins down why people follow someone and makes listeners say yes to the feeling every time. Followership is weird, ...
How to Write Songs About Overcoming challenges
Want to turn the time you cried into a chorus people actually sing in the shower? Good. That is exactly where powerful songs live. Song...
How to Write Songs About Loneliness
You want a song that does more than say lonely. You want a song that puts the listener in the room where the loneliness happened. You w...
How to Write Songs About Naivety
If you want to write a song that sounds like someone who still believes in fairy tales but is writing in a bar bathroom at 2 a.m., this...
How to Write Songs About Literature
You love a book so much you want to make it sing. You are not alone. Writers fall in love with characters, phrases, images, and moments...