Lesson 3 · Jules

Fragments Are Enough

You do not need a complete thought to write a lyric. A fragment is often more powerful than a sentence. A phrase that trails off, a word that arrives without context, an image that does not explain itself — these are the materials of feeling.

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Jules takes this apart properly inside Songmatter — the rest of the lesson, the exercise that goes with it, and a critic who reads what you write back.

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