Write Lyrics Well

Curiosity starts at a young age. When you don’t know much of anything, almost anything is interesting. It doesn’t take long before kids start asking “What’s that?” or “Why?” Unfortunately, most of us stop asking…

My family and I recently got back from a beach vacation. One day we went to the beach and the waves were great for boogie boarding, averaging about 3-4 feet high. The place we were…

We were swimming at a pool yesterday and my oldest son said something that surprised me. He had jumped in quite a bit but it’s something that’s relatively new to him. He said: “If I’m…

If someone asks you what you’re doing, it’s impossible to be doing “nothing.” At any time you are doing some of the following: breathing laying sitting standing walking looking smelling listening tasting If you say…

Most of the time, the things you write are probably just OK. Not the best, not great, maybe not even good but not bad either, just OK. There’s a gap between your abilities and your taste….

Some things are worth the wait. Inspiration is not one of them. If you’re waiting for inspiration, it won’t come. At least not as often as you want it to. Writing for inspiration, that’s a…

Do you write until you’re out of ideas, or do you stop before that? If you’re writing until you finish all your ideas, you may run out of ideas prematurely. Staring at a blank page…

Staring at a blank page with no idea what to write is a tough position, but song ideas are all around us. Most of the time when you sit down to write it should be…

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about writing lyrics that build bridges. This past week, I heard this song while looking through some of the highlighted NPR Tiny Desk Contest entries and found a…

Is there a right time to write lyrics? Yes and no. If you have the freedom to decide what time of day and which days you write, you have the most opportunity to maximize your…