{"id":931,"date":"2013-10-13T09:55:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:40:15","slug":"dont-be-too-literal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/dont-be-too-literal\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Be Too Literal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid being too literal in your songwriting. As the old adage about writing goes, &#8220;show, don&#8217;t tell.&#8221; Never miss an opportunity to use strong imagery and metaphors.<\/p>\n<p>Just because songs aren&#8217;t usually a visual medium, this saying is still relevant. The secret to &#8220;show don&#8217;t tell&#8221; writing is to focus more on\u00a0<em>how<\/em> you&#8217;re trying to say something rather than simply saying it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4080\/4916579736_53c69e379a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr by garryknight<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid being too literal in your songwriting. As the old [&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":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips","tag-how-to-write-songs","tag-songwriting-tips-2","tag-ways-to-compose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-f1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}