Songwriting without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice sets out a series of 14-day challenges constructed to improve both your object writing and your ability to discover and manipulate metaphor.

Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline, Songwriting Without Boundaries will help you commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of more than 150 sense-bound prompts helps you develop the skills you need to:

•tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details
•effectively use metaphor and comparative language
•add rhythm to your writing and manage phrasing

Songwriters, as well as writers of other genres, will benefit from this collection of sensory writing challenges. Divided into four sections, Songwriting Without Boundaries 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.