Songwriting Without Boundaries (54 page)

noun-noun collisions, 77-84

See also
expressed identity exercises prompts

expressed identity exercises prompts

the captain is summer, 83

a cargo ship is a wince, 81-82

cathedral is ___, 86-87

an evening is a poem, 82-83

a Frisbee is a zipper, 78-79

maple tree is ___, 85

a poem is an evening, 79-80

policeman is ___, 87

a restaurant is a wineglass, 80-81

summer is the captain, 80

sunrise is ___, 86

traffic is ___, 85-86

a wince is a cargo ship, 78

a wineglass is a restaurant, 84

a zipper is a Frisbee, 82

Farr, Adam, 13, 14, 20, 36, 218

Faulkner, William, 105, 106

feminine line endings, 178

feminine rhymes, 185, 187

finding adjectives from nouns exercise, 63-66

See
also
finding adjectives from nouns exercise prompts

finding adjectives from nouns exercise prompts

___ cottage, 64-65

___ furnace, 63-64

___ ghost, 66

___ hope, 65-66

___ midnight, 64

finding linking qualities exercises

moving both directions, 158-167

working one direction, 143-158

See also
finding linking qualities exercises prompts

finding linking qualities exercises prompts

afternoon nap, 150-154

magnifying glass, 143-146

sailboat, 161-164

swimming hole, 146-150

traffic cop, 154-158

vacation, 164-167

wheelchair, 158-161

finding nouns from adjectives exercise, 59-62

See also
finding nouns from adjectives exercise prompts

finding nouns from adjectives exercise prompts

angry ___, 59-60

boastful ___, 60

careful ___, 61

dark ___, 61-62

enthusiastic ___, 62

finding nouns from verbs exercise, 74-77

See also
finding nouns from verbs exercise prompts

finding nouns from verbs exercise prompts

___ flushes, 74-75

___ indicts, 75

___ operates, 76

___ paddles, 75-76

___ soars, 77

finding verbs from nouns exercise, 70-74

See also
finding verbs from nouns exercise prompts

finding verbs from nouns exercise prompts

crossbow ___, 71

graduation ___, 73

kettle ___, 71-72

summer ___, 72-73

waitress ___, 72

first-person narrative, 28, 29, 44, 46, 115, 156, 201

Four Quartets, The,
1

free association, sense-bound, 8-9, 12, 18

fundamental tone, 88, 172

Giles, Rob, 110, 204, 218, 221

Gladwell, Malcolm, 24

Gora, Joy, 15, 25-26, 36, 37, 42, 218, 223

Greene, Emily, 218

group writing, 9-10, 47-48, 168

Halvorsen, Ann, 54, 56-57, 64, 73, 76, 79, 80, 81, 218

Harvey, Caroline, 85-86, 91-92, 136-137, 145, 155-156, 218, 220

Hayes, Bonnie, 58, 61, 71, 72, 75, 77, 82, 84, 218, 220

Henchy, Ian, 55, 57, 218

“I Can’t Make You Love Me,” 4

“In Memoriam,” 215

“In Memoriam” quatrain, 215

keys, 68, 88

See also
playing in keys exercise

Keys, Scarlet, 12, 135-136, 139-140, 142-143, 156-157, 159-161, 176-177, 181, 197, 198, 218

“Leave My Like Alone,” 100

legato, 169

Leigh, Joanna, 218

Lewis, Sylvie, 112, 218

Linda M, 18-19, 22, 32, 218

linking qualities, 106, 108, 123, 124, 128, 129, 131, 145, 146

See also
finding linking qualities exercises; linking qualities to target ideas exercise; linking qualities to target ideas working both directions exercise

linking qualities to target ideas exercise, 107-122

See also
linking qualities to target ideas exercise prompts

linking qualities to target ideas exercise prompts

deep-sea diver, 113-118

guitar solo, 118-122

snowstorm, 107-113

linking qualities to target ideas working both directions exercise, 123-143

See also
linking qualities to target ideas working both directions exercise prompts

linking qualities to target ideas working both directions exercise prompts

broken glass, 128-133

cheating lover, 138-143

falling in love, 134-138

sleeping late, 122-128

Lyle, Kami, 218

masculine rhymes, 185, 187

Matt K, 42, 44, 218

McLeod, Clare, 165, 176, 218

McMorrow, Mo, 16, 26-27, 28, 102, 103, 218

Meider, Jess, 56, 61-62, 64, 69, 71, 81-82, 131-132, 148-149, 163-164, 187, 193, 218

melodic shapes, 169, 170, 200

Merenda, James, 67-68, 218

metaphor challenges, 2

See
also specific writing challenges, exercises, and prompts

metaphors, 12, 15, 19, 46, 49-51, 56, 57, 60, 62, 68, 70, 71, 88-89, 98, 99, 100, 104, 114, 122, 125, 161, 176, 177, 179, 183, 186, 187, 189, 195, 199, 201, 204, 205, 209, 217, 218

expressed identity, 50-51

extended, 105, 106, 215

looking for, 7, 137, 139, 175, 177, 179, 184, 188, 192, 194, 196, 199, 203, 207, 210, 213

qualifying, 51

stacking, 134-135, 143

verbal, 51, 111, 112

versus simile, 98

See also
specific writing challenges, exercises, and prompts

meter.
See
common meter; duplo meter; pentameter lines; rhythm patterns; tetrameter lines; trimeter lines; triple meter

Miller, Nick, 18, 19, 218

Mitchell, Kaz, 16, 17, 20-21, 24, 34, 39, 43, 45-46, 47, 218

Mount, Sarah, 166, 218

“My Girl,” 4

Neilson, Tami, 111-112, 115, 176, 218

Nosko, Leora, 28, 218

noun-noun collisions exercise.
See
expressed identity exercises

noun-verb collisions exercise, 67-70

See also
noun-verb collisions exercise prompts

noun-verb collisions exercise prompts

autumn remembers, 69

carburetor sings, 68-69

funeral exhales, 68

handkerchief pleads, 70

moonlight tumbles, 67-68

nouns, 50, 51, 52, 59, 67, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 106, 171

nondiatonic, 60

See also
adjective-noun collisions exercise; finding adjectives from nouns exercise; finding nouns from adjectives exercise; finding nouns from verbs exercise; finding verbs from nouns exercise; noun-verb collisions exercise

O’Shaughnessy, John, 25, 219

object writing, 5, 9, 12, 23, 52, 53, 59, 63, 70, 105-107

elevator prompt, 7-8

See also
object writing challenge; “what” writing exercise; “when” writing exercise; “where” writing exercise; “who” writing exercise

object writing challenge, 2, 4-10

See also
“what” writing exercise; “when” writing exercise; “where” writing exercise; “who” writing exercise

object writing with metaphor challenge.
See
linking qualities to target ideas exercise; linking qualities to target ideas working both directions exercise; finding linking qualities exercises

“Ode to the West Wind,” 51

Olmsted, Rebecca, 218

participles, 65

past tense, 32, 33

Pattison, Pat, 11, 12, 100-101, 140, 146, 178-179, 180, 187, 188

Pence, Charlotte, 85, 219

pentameter lines, 169, 202, 206-212

See also
common meter couplets and pentameter lines exercise; tetrameter couplets and pentameter lines exercise

Penton, Paul, 9, 15, 25, 30, 31, 38, 44, 45, 46, 219

perfect rhyme, 185, 205

personification, 53, 56, 69, 73, 87, 179, 184, 215

pitches, 169, 170, 171

playing in keys exercise

finding linking qualities, 93-98

using linking qualities, 88-93

See also
playing in keys exercise prompts

playing in keys exercise prompts

cathedral, 92-83

handshake, 96-97

maple tree, 94

policeman, 89-92

sunrise, 97-98

tide, 88-89

traffic, 94-95

point of view, 198

Pope, Alexander, 168

prepositional phrase, 76

prepositions, 70, 172, 173

present tense, 32, 33, 34, 44, 46

primary stress, 170, 171, 190

in compound words, 172

See also
stressed syllables

productive ambiguity, 56

prompts, 2, 3, 10

See also
specific writing challenge prompts
; “what” writing exercise prompts; “when” writing exercise prompts; “where” writing exercise prompts; “who” writing exercise prompts

pronouns, 75

personal, 172

relative, 172

Quilter, Deborah, 8, 24-25, 32, 33, 34, 38, 43, 44, 46, 219, 222

Rajwani, Tasleem, 29, 219

Rawlings, David, 168

Reid, Mike, 4

rhyme, 169, 217

assonance, 190

consonance, 196, 200, 205

feminine, 185, 187

masculine, 185, 187

partial, 208

perfect, 185, 205

types, 183

rhyming positions, 204

rhythm, 169-175, 217

rhythm and rhyme writing challenges, 2-3

rhythm patterns, 173-175, 202

duple, 173-174, 178, 181, 184, 186, 188

triple, 174, 181, 184, 185, 186, 188

Robinson, Smokey, 4

Roget’s International Thesaurus,
59

Romans, Ben, 53, 58, 219, 222

Salo, Leora, 67, 219

second-person narrative, 30, 44, 179, 184, 201

secondary stress, 170, 190, 194

in compound words, 172

in grammatical functions, 173

See also
stressed syllables

Seiffert, Catrina, 27, 28, 35, 219

sense-bound writing, 2, 4-5, 9, 41, 47, 105, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 175, 176, 179, 184, 186, 188, 189, 192, 194, 196, 199, 203, 204, 207, 208, 210, 211, 213

See also
free association, sense-bound

senses, 5-6

See also
sense-bound writing; free association, sense-bound

Shamblin, Alan, 4

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 51

Shorr, Michael, 110-111, 219

simile exercise, 102-103

See also
simile exercise prompts

simile exercise prompts

a bad joke is like, 102

divorce is like, 102-103

hope is like, 103

trust is like, 102

a waterfall is like, 103

similes, 12, 15, 46, 83, 98-104, 111, 114, 128, 131, 151, 155-156, 157, 160, 162, 183, 186, 187, 189, 204, 209

versus metaphor, 98

See also
simile exercise

Simon, Paul, 174

songwriters.
See names of specific songwriters

Speace, Amy, 219

“Still Crazy After All These Years,” 174

Sting, 23, 175

“Stolen Car,” 23, 175

Stolpe, Andrea, 59, 60, 64-65, 66, 68, 70, 80, 82-83, 94, 96, 102, 103, 192-193, 194, 198, 199, 208, 219

stressed syllables, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 200, 208

in compound words, 172

See also
primary stress; secondary stress

Stübinger, Manuel, 28-29, 34, 219

Swiniarski, Stan, 141, 144, 193-194, 199-200, 208, 210, 211, 219

target idea, 106, 108, 123, 124, 129, 131, 144, 146

See also
specific writing challenges, exercises, and prompts
; linking qualities to target ideas exercise; linking qualities to target ideas working both directions exercise

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 215

tetrameter couplets, 168, 169, 192, 201, 202

See also
tetrameter couplets and pentameter lines exercise; tetrameter couplets exercise

tetrameter couplets and pentameter lines exercise, 201-205