Originally Posted by: Hootayahread lots of books, watch movies, go do stuff and think of ways to put your feelings into words..[/QUOTE]
I second that. I've been out of school for some years now and therefore am not reading as much, and I can definitely feel that my language skills are slipping. Maybe not in everyday conversation, but in creative writing and even in how I used to be able to put my feelings or thoughts in words much more easily.
So, 1791, go to the library and take out a few books. Some I recommend:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Anything that says "by Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens" on it
- some good translated Russian works, like Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol
I would have come up with more, but a client just interrupted me with a 30 min. telephone call.
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Last but not least... get a spell checker and use it.
Your spelling is absolutely atrocious and makes you sound like a total idiot. An occasional spelling error is forgivable, but if you can't sound half way intelligent, nobody is going to be interested in doing business with you or helping you... and songwriting is definitely a business.
Listen up here, 1791.
... and that's all I have to say about that.
[U]ALL[/U] generalizations are [U]WRONG[/U]
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[U]ALL[/U] generalizations are [U]WRONG[/U]
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