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Given this idea of feeling-tone paintings I just described, much of my song-writing process involves a sort of second self that monitors my own experience or what I hear from others. This may sound cool and detached, and I suppose most writers go through this dilemma; does their writing or artistry pull them out of fully experiencing their own lives as participants? I don't have a good answer to this question; but the instinct to do this observation and reflection seems to be a pretty deep habit at this point.

Sometimes I feel like a photographer; I walk through life looking for scenes that would compose or frame well into songs. Some design elements are: 1) selection/drawing a frame or boundary; 2) focus; 3) adding, preserving, and filtering concrete detail (knowing which particular details to leave in, that will transfer context well, and which won't); 4) resonance (how to make the particulars echo with something bigger that stands behind them, while not imposing this or getting pompous about it); 5) distancing (how far away to stand from the experience); 6) blurring (what to leave ambiguous or unspoken); and 7) cropping: redrawing the boundary of where to stop telling the story once the details are filled in.

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