Great Hooks

[mojobone]

Jun 24, 2009, 9:16am, tedsingingfox wrote:Lamont Dozier, at last year's Road Rally, said over and over again... Watch soap operas. Watch Jerry Springer. Read the grocery store tabloids. Yes...the Enquirer...yes. There are NO better sources of over-the-top emotional displays to give you ideas (and often the very words you use for your hook/title).That's tough for me, as I haven't watched TV in nearly 5 years and I'm REALLY not liking the idea of starting to, again. And I'm so fricking convinced how I'm so much better than "those kinds of people" (Jerry Springer's "guests", etc.)...probably to my own detriment. I need to get over myself and give it a try. It IS, after all, a great suggestion.Yeah it is; there's a reason Harlan Howard liked to hang out in bars. People fight there, they fall in love there, they break up there, and to top all that off they're jes' about liquored up enough to tell you all about it, and in some very colorful language. To my mind, that's country gold. Those kinds of people are my kind-I jes' find 'em entertaining as all get-out; it's like a trainwreck, an' I jes' can't look away. When you stop to consider, people that don't have problems aren't too terribly interesting.

[dasvon]

Jun 23, 2009, 6:30am, mojobone wrote:Jun 22, 2009, 1:44pm, ontariolightning wrote:"Where there's a will, there's today"a song about changing your life, no excuses, if you want to do it then do it today, someone write itThat's great hook line; I love when somebody puts a twist on a well-worn aphorism. I'm gonna high me down to yon Barnes and Noble and grab a couple of books full of those wise old sayings, and then go mess 'em up.... You can start by searching "malapropisms" or "spoonerisms" . Lot's of good ones already out there that aren't taken in a song yet.