It's that moment where the status quo changes.Īfterwards is Act 2A, which is the verse again. Then, the 1st chorus is the inciting incident. It's like making a promise, if that makes sense. They're both setting things up, getting the readers/listeners to understand what the content is going to be about. The way I see it, the 1st verse of a song is like the build-up of a story. It's not exactly like that, but I've simplified it. PROLOGUE - SET-UP - INCITING INCIDENT - ACT 2A - MIDPOINT - ACT 2B - LOW POINT - ACT 3 - EPILOGUE INTRO - VERSE - CHORUS - VERSE - CHORUS - BRIDGE - CHORUS - OUTROĪnd, in the Save the Cat! story structure, the key elements are: The way I see it, a regular song goes like this: (I'm neither a pro songwriter nor a pro writer writer, but I've written a couple of things, here and there.) The only rules I could think of are with the structures.
I have some thoughts of my own, but maybe I'll reserve them for the discussion that will hopefully ensue. I would be very much interested in any thoughts you might have on the subject. What are the similarities, and what (beyond the obvious, of course) are the differences?
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which "rules" from songwriting could you scale up to story length, or how to think about verse and chorus in the context of a novel, how to keep a tension arc up in a song and in a novel. I am now making the shift to writing short stories (have written a few already) and have started working on a longer story, which might turn out to be a novella in length.Īs I'm getting more and more into this, I was wondering if there are any other songwriters (or anyone) in here that has some good tips of how to think about this transition, i.e. I'm not a professional by any means, but I have learned a thing or two along the way, when it comes to lyric writing, such as how to keep tension going, how to craft sentences that sound good, cadence, flow, etc. I'm a songwriter with about 15 years of experience writing songs approximately weekly.
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