Lesson 10 · Jules
The Song That Writes Itself
There comes a moment in writing a song — if you are lucky, if you have been patient, if you have done the work of listening — when the song takes over. The words start coming faster than you can think them. The lines connect in ways you did not plan. The ending arrives before you knew you were heading there. The song writes itself.
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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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