Lesson 6 · Jolene
Characters Who Breathe
The people in your songs need to be real. Not real as in factual — real as in breathing. The listener needs to see them, hear them, understand them in the way you understand someone you have met, not someone you have been told about.
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Jolene 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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