{"id":1327,"date":"2013-12-14T20:17:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T04:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:34:09","slug":"dont-force-words-or-syllables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/dont-force-words-or-syllables\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Force Words or Syllables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid forcing too many syllables or words into a single melodic line. Often less is more when it comes to lyric writing, and if you try to get too cute with your wordplay, you could risk sacrificing the song&#8217;s overall fluidity.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to be concise isn&#8217;t the same thing as making your lyrics dumbed down. Learn <a href=\"http:\/\/goinswriter.com\/write-less-not-more-how-to-slice-and-dice\/\">how to slice and dice your writing<\/a> so that you can create a finely tuned product.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4064\/4680630459_25c4f6b43b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr by theilr<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid forcing too many syllables or words into a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-lp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}