if you can't write then you should probably just stop trying to write. Wait until something actually happens to you, wait till you actually feel passionate about something.
I don't think you understand the question.
"where do you guys find your inspiration? do you often write in metaphors or are you quite literal? what perspectives do you write in (first or third or is it like an adventure novel? go to the second page if you answered yes)
every time i'm upset i pick up a pencil and i feel like saetia (shitty)."
He was asking about how other people write, not for suggestions because he lacks inspiration or anything.
Usually about the world around me, how I tend to view things whether they are social, political, or personal. I haven't had a reason to write anything for a long time, but since Capacities started everything has been very reflective thus far. Most of it is usually out of frustration or coming to terms with certain topics. I'm pretty blunt with words and tend to generalize them a bit, but there are a few metaphors. I've only written one song that was somewhat from another person's perspective, but it's more inspired by a character.
I wanna start writing lyrics for a punk/emo side project, but the only inspiration I can find is how everything around where I am sucks and how suburbia is shit. so cliche.
also how I did not do cool shit in highschool and want to now.
ThumperKegg wrote:I wanna start writing lyrics for a punk/emo side project, but the only inspiration I can find is how everything around where I am sucks and how suburbia is shit. so cliche.
also how I did not do cool shit in highschool and want to now.
man I am fucked.
do cool shit now
write songs about it
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profit
ThumperKegg wrote:I wanna start writing lyrics for a punk/emo side project, but the only inspiration I can find is how everything around where I am sucks and how suburbia is shit. so cliche.
also how I did not do cool shit in highschool and want to now.
man I am fucked.
Don't always have to write from personal experience. A lot of billy werners stuff wasn't from a first person perspective. For example his song solanka is about a character from the book fury by salman Rushdie. You don't exactly need personal experience to write about anything. The state of society is cliche but it's just a good opportunity to try to express yourself in new creative ways that won't seem repetitive.
I for one definitely do NOT agree that Saetia has shifty lyrics. I've always liked their lyrics a lot. (i have some tattooed on me). Now that tuTs out of the way, I write different lyrics for different types of music. For my screamo project, I don't focus heavily on rhyming (for most songs), and I t end to favor the abstract over concrete statements because I feel like emotion can't he conveyed very well using literal wording. Also, metaphors and less specific feelings can be related to more than specific circumstances.
When I played in a folk punk band, I rhymed in typical patterns, signing about personal experiances in the form of stories, as well as turning emotions or political thoughts into stories. Some lyrics weren't story-oriented, but I found the progression of a plot-line conducive to te music I was playing at the time.
I played in an acoustic emo-ish, very sad and depresssing two piece where I wrote the lyrics for both of us. I made the lyrics stack on top of one another so that certain words would be said at the same time or complement words being said by the other person. Those lyrics tended toward the abstract as well, with loose rhyming.
I also do performance poetry, where I utilize abstract rhyme schemes in a hip-hop influenced style. These tend to be rants ranging from stories to spiraling thought patterns to abstractions about personal development.
To me, lyrical style always stems from the format. I will develop a sound for a band or project first, and that forms the base of how I write my lyrics. Sometimes of course this works in reverse, but its important for the style of writing to match the style of music. At least to me.
I tend to invent a character whose feelings are my feelings, but to a higher degree. For example, if I am writing a song about the illness of a loved one, I'll try to imagine a character who has lost that person to that illness. That is a very basic example, but you can do some really interesting things with that basic concept. Other than that, I choose to write a lot about historical stories or stories that my friends tell me.
Don't look for inspiration, let it find you. The best songs are written when you aren't even THINKING about writing songs.
i write a lot about love and snuff films. reptilians, abductions, self hate, i hate religion a lot for some reason. my crankiness. usually i write after something horrible has happened in the middle of the night all alone in my notebooks and hide them under my bed. i'm truly 100% always paranoid that someone will find those and make fun of me.
mothsack wrote:I tend to invent a character whose feelings are my feelings, but to a higher degree. For example, if I am writing a song about the illness of a loved one, I'll try to imagine a character who has lost that person to that illness. That is a very basic example, but you can do some really interesting things with that basic concept. Other than that, I choose to write a lot about historical stories or stories that my friends tell me.
Don't look for inspiration, let it find you. The best songs are written when you aren't even THINKING about writing songs.
can you tell me more about this? this was exactly the thing i was looking for.
neck_cannon wrote:i write a lot about love and snuff films. reptilians, abductions, self hate, i hate religion a lot for some reason. my crankiness. usually i write after something horrible has happened in the middle of the night all alone in my notebooks and hide them under my bed. i'm truly 100% always paranoid that someone will find those and make fun of me.
you can't be worse than a lot of people that have made music. i'm interested in hearing things you've written.
