<b>Infuse your lyrics with sensory detail!</b><p>Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. <i>Songwriting Without Boundaries</i> will help you commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of more than150 sense-bound prompts helps you develop the skills you need to:<ul><li>tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details</li><li>effectively use metaphor and comparative language</li><li>add rhythm to your writing and manage phrasing</li></ul><p>Songwriters, as well as writers of other genres, will benefit from this collection of sensory writing challenges. Divided into four sections, <i>Songwriting Without Boundaries</i> features four different fourteen-day challenges with timed writing exercises, along with examples from other songwriters, poets, and prose writers. Contributing writers include multiple Grammy winning songwriter Gillian Welch, professional poet Caroline Harvey, a host of songwriters from the Berklee College of Music faculty, and others.<p>Includes foreword by professional songwriter Mike Reid ("I Can?t Make You Love Me", performed by Bonnie Raitt)<p><b>About the Author:</b><p>Pat Pattison is a professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches lyric writing and poetry. His books include <i>Writing Better Lyrics</i>, <i>The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure</i>, and <i>The Essential Guide to Rhyming</i>. In addition, Pat has developed three online lyric writing courses for Berklee?s online school, and has written articles for a variety of industry publications. His internationally successful students include multiple Grammy winners John Mayer and Gillian Welch.