TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pattison,Pat
TI  - Writing better lyrics: the essential guide to powerful songwriting 
SN  - 9781582975771 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - MT67 .P383 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cincinnati
PB  - Writer's Digest Books
KW  - Lyric writing (Popular music)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-293) and index; Foreword / Gillian Welch -- Introduction -- 1. Object writing : the art of the diver -- 2. Rusty's collar : a lesson in showing and telling -- 3. Making metaphors -- 4. Learning to say no : building worksheets -- 5. Clichés : the sleeping puppy (a case study) -- 6. Productive repetition -- 7. Verse development and power positions -- 8. Travelogues : verse continuity -- 9. Stripping your repetition for repainting -- 10. Perspectives -- 11. Point of view : second person and the hangman -- 12. Point of view : second person as narrative -- 13. Dialogue and point of view -- 14. Meter : something in common -- 15. Spotlighting with common meter -- 16. Meter : two by two -- 17. Managing couplets -- 18. Prosody : structure as film score -- 19. Understanding motion -- 20. Form follows function : building the perfect beast -- 21. The great balancing act : courting danger on the high wire -- 22. Song forms : (im) potent packages -- 23. Song forms : (im) potent packages II -- 24. Process -- Appendix. Co-writing : the "no"-free zone -- Permissions -- Index
N2  - Discusses the songwriting process and offers advice on how to improve composition skills, and the proper use of meter, verse development, and form
ER  -