Story-First Songwriting

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub So, I recently watched Netflix's documentary about Lewis Capaldi,  "Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now,"  and let me tell you, it was a rollercoaster of emotions—inspiring and tear-jerking in equal measure. In th...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub How many of you have a message for the world, but you need help finding your voice or your audience? Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. I want you to imagine millions of people listening to your song. I want you to imagine thous...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub Lets move away from all those love songs we’ve talked about in the past because I recently had the pleasure to listen to the song “The Comeback ” by the London-based musician Drew Davies . As stated on metaltalk.net, this song by...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub When you feel stuck in your songwriting or in life in general, I’d like to share the approach that helped me. So, if you feel stuck sometimes… maybe this helps.

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub In today’s episode, we’re gonna explore what it looks when we write about facing a crisis. We’ve all been in a dilemma in our life, right? It’s when no matter what we choose, there’s always something to lose, but also something to...

Today, I wanna answer a question that I got recently asked in my Facebook Group. It’s from Hudson. And he asked: How can I combine every part of the song so that it contributes to one central meaning of the lyrics? That’s an awesome question, and let’s talk about it right now. Visit ⁠⁠lyricmastery.com⁠⁠ for everything on storytelling in songwriting.

If you’re like me, you have something valuable to share. Something that matters. And that we know that can help someone who will listen to our song.  And to get our message across in a way that bypasses a listener's critical mind, we have to wrap what we have to say into an experience. And we create that experience through the journey we send our song’s main character on. So that’s why we talk...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub Today, I wanna take the chance and introduce myself to you. Especially, I wanna tell you the story about the time in my life when I was completely lost, on my own, literally at the end of the world, and how one song gave me the st...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub You know, I always consider what happens in a powerful lyric like a journey.   It’s basically about watching a character move from one point in their life to another.   They are in a certain external or internal situation, and the...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub In today’s episode, I want to talk with you about you, your purpose, and why we write lyrics.  For me, when it comes to writing – no matter if it’s novels or lyrics – I use my words as the means to communicate with my audience and...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub In today’s episode, we’ll go through the lyrics of  “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” by Thompson Square. And I tell you, as I first listened to the song. I thought: Quite nice. But I didn’t give the lyrics much thought . But now, af...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #043 - Welcome to part 3 of our mini-series of Attention-Grabbing Opening Lines. In episode 41 of the Stories in Songs Podcast, I’m gonna throw a lot of questions at you. Why? Listen to the show and find out. ;-) Episode Overview...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #040 - Creating A One-Sentence Lyric Outline To Guide Your Writing Process. In today’s episode, we continue with steps Two and Three to Creating A One-Sentence Lyric Outline To Guide Your Writing Process. If you haven’t listened t...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #39 - Today, we continue with another technique of how you can create an attention-grabbing opening line for your lyrics beginning. And specifically, we talk about the Shocking Statement and different ways how you can pull it off...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #038 - Let's address the question of why we should look at the craft of storytelling when we write our lyrics – apart from the impact the power of storytelling has on our audience.  Let's focus on our writing process. Because when...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #037 - How can we write an attention-grabbing opening line so that we can hook our listener with our first line? In today’s age, thousands of distractions compete for our audience’s attention. And if our song doesn’t hook our list...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #036 - How To Answer The Question Of Relevancy when it comes to Writing Lyrics. Have you ever listened to a song only to end up confused because something in the lyrics seemed off? Did you struggle because something was missing or...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #035 - “Can A Song Save A Life.” Lyrics ain’t an afterthought to making a song. They are equally as important as the melody and the song’s production. I mean, writing Songs as well as Listening to Songs can be the greatest aid in...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #034 - How to Crush it as a Support Act to Get People Interested in Your Stuff. After all, it’s all a question: Will they sing your lyrics back to you, or will they not? For me as a listener, yes, I’ll definitely shout back: Viva...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #033 - What does  “character development” or “developing characters” mean? And do we, as songwriters, really have to think about how we create our song’s character? And if so, how can we show the audience a character in the lyrics...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #032 - Making Your Song’s Character Fall in Love and Influence your Audience's Engagement. In today’s episode, we’ll go through the lyrics of the song “You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This” by Toby Keith. The lyrics are so amazing to s...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #031 - The Wants and Needs of a Song’s Character and How They Can Engage Your Listeners through Creating Conflict. Did you know that listeners are drawn to specific topics of lyrics because they strive to get similar things in the...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #30 - Write a song that shows a meaningful transformation of your song’s main character. Here's how you can do that. Do you want to tell your audience about someone who had to change a part of who they are to get what they actuall...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #029 - Let's create a character for your song who does what's necessary to get what they want. And besides, we also figure out WHAT a character might want. In a story, the main character actively pursues a goal, right? I don’t thi...

✅ Join my free community for songwriters who want to leverage the power of storytelling to write great songs that grow their fanbase & career. ⁠lyricmastery.com/hub #028 -  Today we’ll do our third lyric study about the love story moment of the first kiss. More specifically, we’ll talk a little more about the tension, and the anticipation BEFORE the first kiss happens. After all, that’s an in...