Let’s start with a few basic ingredients and see if we can make something exciting happen. An example to start . . . Come up with ten verbs that are associated with, say, a physician, and write them down on a page. Then write down ten nouns that are within your field of vision. Examine Thump Prescribe Listen Write Scan Touch Wait Charge Heal Cushion Guitar Wall Turntable Sunlight Window Carpet Drum Microphone Lightbulb Now take a pencil and draw lines to connect nouns and verbs that don’t normally work together. I like to use this exercise not so much to generate a set of lyrics but to remind
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