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 #027 - Do you want to make it progressively worse for your song's character? Then find out how you can use progressive complications to develop your lyric verses. Do you struggle with writing the second verse? Do you have problems...

✅ 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 #026 - Use Pat Pattison's Development Engine and the 5 Commandments of Storytelling and develop your lyric idea. Today we talk about how you can actually develop your lyric idea into an outline. That means no more struggles with w...

✅ 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 #025 - Outline your lyric's idea by using six crucial questions and combine them with the Story Grid Diorama Model. Today we talk about a songwriter’s six best friends. You might have already heard about the term: Songwriter’s Six...

✅ 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 #024 - Do you want to write a great love song about the first kiss? Get inspired by using love story conventions to get your listeners into the mood. Today we’ll do our second lyric study about the love story moment of the first k...

✅ 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 #023 - Not in the mood to write another song about love? Get inspired by other great topics to write about. Let me ask you this: Have you ever wondered if there’s anything other than writing a love song?  It seems every second son...

✅ 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 #022 - The Most Important Element of a Story that Works – How to Show a Change between Beginning and Ending. Honestly, you’re about to learn about one of the most important aspects that decide if you have a story or if it’s just a...

✅ 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 #021 - No more struggles when you flesh out your lyric's idea. Today we start with our first bite-sized episode to talk about one specific aspect of using the power of storytelling in writing lyrics. Let me ask you this: When it c...

✅ 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 #020 - Find out why change is better than repetition in writing the lyric's plot. Today we’ll talk about Parachute’s song “Kiss Me Slowly.” This is the first song we analyze in the category of the love story moment of the First Ki...

✅ 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 Love is the most amazing feeling of all that we can experience – and if your song shares a heart-melting kissing moment, you have an unforgettable tale at your hands… But if romance isn’t your type of thing to write about, you’re...

✅ 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 #018 - The Ultimate Guide To Writing Love Lyrics About The Lovers' First Encounter. Do you want to write an original love song about the lovers' first encounter? About that special moment when the possible future couple first lays...

✅ 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 #017 - One songwriting trick to help you use the most essential element of great storytelling to your songwriting advantage. If you've been having a hard time finishing the lyrics of a song you're stuck in and being objective abou...

✅ 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 #016 - Insider’s guide to pushing album sales by ending the lyrics of a single release with a cliffhanger. Do you want your songs to be heard? Then I've got great news for you. Here's what my new podcast episode can help you with:...

✅ 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 #015 - Find Out How To Stop Writing Fairytale Love Songs And Show A Darker Side Of Love In Your Lyrics. Do you want to write a love song that is not about a happily ever after? Are you fed up with fairytale love songs that always...

✅ 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 #014 - A Wonderful Way To Show The Change Of Your Song's Character - while letting love take on the role of the villain! Do you want to make your listeners relate to your song's character's troubles? But you don't know how to pull...

✅ 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 #013  - Learn how to narrate a "Love At First Sight" moment in your lyrics while still keeping your listeners engaged. Do you want to learn how to narrate a "Love At First Sight" moment in your lyrics? But you struggle with not kn...

✅ 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 #012 - The secret weapon every singer/songwriter needs right now to pull their audience into their song. Do you want to write lyrics that have an enticing flavor? But don't know how to go about study the lyrics of other love songs...

✅ 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 #011 - How to avoid making your listeners feel left out. Are you struggling with creating an emotional connection with your audience? And you don't know how to go about learning some more songwriting techniques? Well, today this i...

✅ 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 #010 -  Write A "Love at First Sight" Song Like The Pros And Create Catharsis If you've been having a hard time beating writer's block... And you need to write a captivating love song ... Then this new podcast episode - "How To Wr...

✅ 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 #009 -  What If You Had The Ability To Know How To Write An Evergreen?   A song that would resonate with your audience, hook them from the first line, and which you could then use to skyrocket your album sales and get more fans? I...

✅ 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 #008 -  Here’s What You Don’t Know About Songwriting That Could Revolutionize your Lyrics. Interview with A Minute for Manny about Storytelling in Songs This episode is for you when you want to know the simple way to make your son...

✅ 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 #007 - How to write an amazing, heartbreaking love song so that you take your audience with you back into a moment in time when they had to get over a breakup. We’ll do that by analyzing one song of an aspiring songwriter and musi...

✅ 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 #006 - Get inspired by the six most anticipated moments of every love story and use them to write powerful love songs. It might bore you to write another love song because everything has been said already. But has it? I want you 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 #005 - Today I want to talk with you about a problem many of us have to face at one point or another: How the heck can we finish the lyrics of a song we’re struggling with?  After all, if that song would not be important to you, y...

✅ 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 #004 - Don't wanna compete in a staring contest with that blank sheet of paper and wonder how to begin writing a song? I'll show you a method as well as three different types of beginnings that will spark your imagination . Today...

✅ 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 #003 - Learn the basics components you need for telling a powerful story or a captivating incident in your song. I give you three specific things that you can do in your songwriting right now to help you hook your listeners and to...