Originally Posted by: Jolly McJollysonWhat is it exactly that you do for work, eggman? I'm actually curious to know.[/QUOTE]
Check my profile. It says "rock star". But, to while away the time, I dawdle in public accounting.

Originally Posted by: Jolly McJollysonOh, and 1791, there is also some great American literature you should consider besides the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy :rolleyes: . William Faulkner, Ray Bradbury, E.B. White, the list goes on forever, why not try out a few?

Yeah, I know, I could have come up some more and better ones, but, like I said, a client called and interrupted my train of thought.


[QUOTE=Jolly McJollyson]If you havetrouble coming up with subjects, try singing whatever comes to mind. This has worked for me with songs like "Red Rose on my Pillow" (sorry about the title, Jon!) "Giant Fighting Robot" and "Steinberg the Boxing Rabbi." You can make up the lyrics off the top of your head, THEN, after you finish typing them up, see where you took the song. I find that my songs are pretty directionless at the beginning, but develop a theme as I write more verses. Then I go back and re-write the first few verses to tie in with the theme. After THAT I go through and re-write lines that seem awkward or forced. I usually save the chorus for last, unless something cool comes to me while I'm still in the early stages (E.g. "Tee ****in hee," as submitted by a conversation I was having with someone at the time).

The way I go about making up lyrics [the way I say it, it makes it sound as if I'm quite the prolific songwriter, which I am not, but which I intend to change! (how's that for a run-on sentence!)] is first write out my thoughts in prose or in free verse. Then, I'll consult my notebook with all my writings in it while listening to a riff or chord progression that I've recorded and looped. To come up with actual lyrics, I just try to convert my prose into rhyming couplets and sing them out to test them for stupidity.