August 2020 Exercises
EXERCISES:
1. Take a walk. Or a drive. Get AWAY from your screen, your journal, your piano or your guitar. Sometimes when you are trying to force something out of your mind and onto paper, it comes out feeling just that: forced. Get away from what is putting you in a box. Have you written the same hook a dozen times and can’t think of a chorus to write around it to save your life? Toss it in the “Do This Later” pile and move on to your next idea. Don’t force yourself to write around a hook just because you think it is commercial or what a specific artist wants at the moment. Take a mental break and do something you enjoy to get you back on your game.
2:
Make a list of clichés and center the hook idea around one of your top two cliché choices.