Writing Song Lyrics, Prose, Poetry

There are many, many levels and ways to be inspired. Today, I, being no expert will mention 3 of them as for me they have been fountains of stirred waters that spilled out into songs -and sometimes prose and poems.

You know yourself best (even if others know you more honestly and in some areas, thoroughly) so that's a good place to start when using words. Rhyming or not, there's no sin in using a synonym website and/or rhyming site when choosing words.

Next, you know or in the past have known others well enough to consider their thoughts, behavior and choices as fodder for the words you, the aspiring phrase artist/architect seek to construct.

Studying the Bible's stories regarding people in general along with the news and daily events locally and world-wide (so... "people watching") provides more ideas and actions than anyone besides God Himself can count!

I write these things this morning just short of 60 years of recorded lyrics, prose and poetry. Not all brilliant, plenty if not all of which a lot of people will never read or hear -or if they do, won't care, like or relate to. Yet I communicate with words that often resonate with others, at least elements of -their- lived struggles, needs, joys, experiences if not identical at least partly shared with mine.

Sometimes I write in biographical form, sometimes the inspiration comes from examining other's lives, sometimes the words are a hybrid of both. Imagination is of course, core to creative writing of all kinds, but what I know of myself, others and God, my experiences with these are the foundation.

Perhaps this can help someone out there to write bits of artistic reality, even lacing Good News and elements of what seems to be the Lord's view within?

And as always, thanks for stopping by! -Glenn