(Berklee Guide). Become a more productive songwriter! Learn to organize
the full range of your creative content, from starting inspirations to
finished songs. This book offers pragmatic tools, resources, practices,
and principles for managing the many kinds of creative materials
gathered or generated across a song's life cycle. Organize your ideas
and sources of inspiration, sketches and drafts, versions and revisions,
to streamline your songwriting process. Create and use song seed
notebooks and lists, song journals, and writing and co-writing session
logs, as you develop your overall song catalog. You will learn to: *
Capture and access inspirations of all types lyric, melodic, chordal,
rhythmic, or concept in songwriting notebooks, journals, and lists *
Energize and improve your creative work writing by organizing all your
song ideas for easy access at every stage of songwriting * Manage the
full lifecycle of your songs, from sketches and drafts, through versions
and revisions, to fair copies and demos * Develop an efficient
songwriting workflow that connects inspirations to opportunities and
projects * Rapidly access your strongest creative material in
high-stakes, deadline-driven writing and co-writing sessions * Develop
your song catalogue to support publishing, administration, and licensing
* Use the organizing process to gain insights for advancing your craft
and range as a writer
