Pattison, Pat,  1942- <br/><br/>
Writing better lyrics :  the essential guide to powerful songwriting / 
Pat Pattison ; foreword by Gillian Welch. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - Cincinnati :  Writer's Digest Books,  c2009. 
 - vi, 298 p. :  music ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-293) and index. 
<br/><br/>Foreword / Gillian Welch -- Introduction -- 1. Object writing : the art of the diver -- 2. Rusty's collar : a lesson in showing and telling -- 3. Making metaphors -- 4. Learning to say no : building worksheets -- 5. Clichés : the sleeping puppy (a case study) -- 6. Productive repetition -- 7. Verse development and power positions -- 8. Travelogues : verse continuity -- 9. Stripping your repetition for repainting -- 10. Perspectives -- 11. Point of view : second person and the hangman -- 12. Point of view : second person as narrative -- 13. Dialogue and point of view -- 14. Meter : something in common -- 15. Spotlighting with common meter -- 16. Meter : two by two -- 17. Managing couplets -- 18. Prosody : structure as film score -- 19. Understanding motion -- 20. Form follows function : building the perfect beast -- 21. The great balancing act : courting danger on the high wire -- 22. Song forms : (im) potent packages -- 23. Song forms : (im) potent packages II -- 24. Process -- Appendix. Co-writing : the "no"-free zone -- Permissions -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781582975771 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1582975779 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009019233 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA997269  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015385829  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Lyric writing (Popular music)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>MT67  / .P383 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>782.421640268 PAT