Lesson 4 · Jules
Writing in the Dark
The best lyrics come from writing when you do not know what you are writing about. This sounds counterintuitive — how can you write about something if you do not know what it is? But this is exactly how feeling works. You feel something before you understand it. The writing is the process of understanding.
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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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