Writer’s Digest Lyric Writing Books

Here are a couple of excellent lyric writing books from Writer’s Digest to help you craft your songs. Anyone who sings or writes music can benefit from the advice in these books. They cover song structure, idea generation, rhyming schemes, pitching songs, and other aspects of songwritng.

Writer’s Digest The Craft of Lyric Writing Book
With over 100,000 copies in print, successful author and songwriter Sheila Davis provides a complete guide to writing words for and to music, showing how to create lyrics with universal appeal, choose a song form, and more. 350 pages.

Writer’s Digest You Can Write Song Lyrics Book
Anyone who’s dreamed of writing a hit song but doesn’t know how to start will welcome the inspiration and practical instruction offered by successful lyricist Terry Cox. Readers will learn about basic song components, collaborative songwriting, and creative ways to come up with song ideas. Cox also takes the reader through the stages of writing lyrics for a song, from choosing a title to the chorus, verses and the bridge. Readers will even find sections on getting the song performed, recorded and getting people in the music business interested.