Discussion Blog 3: Writing Theme and Style

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Yes, we have another discussion blog to encourage you to share your views, read other people's, and maybe reply to them, to make you think and inspire you :dummy:

So tell us; what are your favourite themes and styles? In other words, what do you like to write about, and how do you write it?
And, how has this style developed?

This theme was suggested by IsolatedSystem :highfive:! Would you like to ask other writers a question as well? Let us know your ideas :eager:


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Making music has always always always appealed to me... when I was a kid, I used to really struggle to get on with the other kids, and was bullied horribly, so at school I used to try and avoid people, and just walked around the playground singing quietly to myself, just making up words as I went along. Usually it'd be about something really silly, like my favourite food at the time, or a game I liked to play, but I was always coming up with new stuff.

Then at age.... 9ish, I started to learn to play the guitar, and straight away in the exercise book my teacher gave me, I was writing short little melodies in the back pages which I could play.

There was a bit of a musical break after that, but my first real song I wrote when I was about 14, and it was AWFUL. Literally, rhyme seemed more important than anything else, but to me it was the greatest thing in the world, because I wrote a simple guitar chord pattern to fit a simple drum beat and bassline, and added words to it - and since then I've tried desperately to improve.

In terms of theme... I tend to write about whatever's in my head. So, yes, the odd love song, yes, philosophical stuff sometimes, and yes to anything else that might be going on in my personal life... I try not to make any two songs too similar, but sometimes it's easier said than done :P

In terms of style, I do use quite a lot of rhyme, which I'm trying to stop myself from forcing on every song, but I also use a lot of metaphors where I can, to describe things that have similar meaning to me, in the hope that anyone who reads them/hears them (ever) will find their own interpretation that has more specific meaning to them. I also like to play with words that have similar sounds (for example, every other line in the verses in one song I wrote had a word ending in "-tion" or "-sion" on the end), but maybe that's a bit of a drawback. Genre-wise, I like relatively heavy stuff.... punk rock, metalcore, hardcore, post-hardcore, but sometimes find it much easier to write something quiet, acoustic, and much more laid back. :P

I am looking to improve though, because I'm rather dominated by writer's block, so that means that I'm immediately so happy with everything that I CAN pull together that I take a LONG time to spot the crappy bits.

But I'll stop rambling and shut up now :D