miercuri, 19 septembrie 2007

Songwriting criterias

One afternoon I start thinking about not only how to write a song, but on how to write a representation of truth or fantasy with a glimpse of my personality song.Shoul I write of truth or should I write of fantasy?May I write of love or may I write of rage!Coul I write of a warrior or of a messenger of peace? I gues it depends of the contrasting moods of each soul!One question I have no answer for is : Why do I write better at night?
Here some of my rules of attraction in writting a song.
1.Always carry on a notebook or an agenda or a cel or even better a laptop where one can expose some sketches of a song.You don't know when or where you have the brilliant idea of your life!
2.Start a daily songbook or lyricbook.Once I used to have a notebook where I wrote something on someone each and every day.Every idea or lyric must have the writing date and hour.It is very important.It's some kind of education that obliges me to have a daily exposure of a laugh or a tear.And it is easier to see the phases that your personality is going through during lifetime.
3.Trust your talent.Don't fear to write something that seems different or weird to others.If you want to really know yourself you must know your darkest side to be whole.To help the others is to help yourself.
4.If you chose a topic of writing, a rhyme or a rhytm don't keep it too long.Let it be a phase in your writing composition.
5.Each writer has a muse.A person, nature, thoughts or other lyicists.Don't imitate create.If you love Dickinson or lord Byron and know their writings by heart don't try to steal their ideas.They've lived in other times and other places.You live know here!Beyou!Love your muse.
6.Write briefly.Don't continue writing without ending.If you have an ideea or the perfect line.Don't write about it an entire song.Combine love with hate, happiness with lonelyness, shiness with dare, war and peace.
7.Don't write just to write.You must love writing.Write with lust and passion.Fall in love with your character.Love it's lust.Hate ignorance love originality!Write with feeling!
8.No matter what gender you write.Listen to the competition.Don't follow their line of writing, but watch them.If they inspire you take the idea but write it in your way.(e.g. a whirlwhind of glaced waters = glacier).
9.Trust your instincts write forbidden.They thought that Elvis's music was perverting people of his times, because he shaked his hipps to much!He's the god of rock'n'roll now, because he was original!One must die to live forever!
10.Show the truth that lies in you trough your song and your lyrics!Let the whole world know the talent that your soul carries in dare.Don't try to fit in the world you're living.Expose it how you see it.By just writing some of your darkest and secret thoughts you may trying to understand the truth of who you are and what you dare into this world or even why you were born, there, by that time, and your reason to live or die.

If you have any thoughts , recomendations, ideas, critics on my rules of songwriting, please let me know.reply or e-mail strange.feelings2007@gmail.com.