{"id":30268,"date":"2014-02-23T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=30268"},"modified":"2014-02-23T21:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T03:00:46","slug":"jack-blanchard-column-songs-by-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/23\/jack-blanchard-column-songs-by-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Blanchard Column: Songs By Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SONGS BY ACCIDENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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I get encouraging letters from people who say nice things about my writings…<\/strong><\/p>\n

my songs, articles, and stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a real incentive to write more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of my writing seems to me to be by accident.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By that I mean:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have never planned or plotted a story or song in my life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I usually let my mind wander into a situation, real or imaginary,<\/strong><\/p>\n

and the pictures unfold in front of me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I just take down what happens, as it happens.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what the ending will be until it ends.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m as surprised as everybody else.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I seldom know the title of a song until the rest of it is done.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I often have a temporary working title but it\u2019s usually replaced<\/strong><\/p>\n

and demoted to a line somewhere in the piece.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Any craftsmanship I may have comes later,<\/strong><\/p>\n

when I go in and edit the whole thing,<\/strong><\/p>\n

trying to get rid of all phrases that don\u2019t add to the story,<\/strong><\/p>\n

and replacing words that are almost right<\/strong><\/p>\n

with ones that are closer to right.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like fill-in lines. I\u2019d rather have it short.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or, maybe a better word is \u201ctight\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In school sports I was a good sprinter but not good in any race over 100 yards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I did alright in football, baseball, and hockey because the action is in spurts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My writing limitations are the same… short bursts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like composing song lyrics. because they\u2019re miniatures,<\/strong><\/p>\n

like little pieces of jewelry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working out the music part is fun<\/strong><\/p>\n

because the secret of music is surprises.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The music can come first, last, or along with the words.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No formula works for me all the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you this because people are often interested in how writers work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know I am.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would write even if I never got paid…<\/strong><\/p>\n

which is somewhat true.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Copr. Jack Blanchard<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SONGS BY ACCIDENT . I get encouraging letters from people who say nice things about my writings… my songs, articles, and stories. It\u2019s a real incentive to write more. Most of my writing seems to me to be by accident. By that I mean: I have never planned or plotted a story or song in my life. I don\u2019t know how. I usually let my mind wander into a situation, real or imaginary, and the pictures unfold in front of me. I just take down what happens, as it happens.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}