How does one learn to be a good lyricist?

like all writing, it's important to just keep doing it even though it's shit

keep to very traditional forms and just enjoy doing them before moving on to something more contemporary. rhyming is not your enemy.

>>75065941
cool t shirt

>>75065941
>>75065989
Just write a lot.

How do you get good at soccer? or cooking? or playing piano? You gotta do it a shitload of times, and you'll fail and you'll want to quit, because nothing that's worth it is easy to obtain. You'll make mistakes, but you'll learn from them.

Also, READ A LOT, and when you write just do it, don't think about what you wanna write. WRITE and then think about what did you write.

Just keep doing it and you'll get better before you even realise.

JUST DON'T STOP

yeah just keep doing it, read a lot and not just other lyrics, never delete or throw away anything

>>75066006
random pic, bad joke

>>75066043
Also thisssssssss, never delete or throw away, even if it makes you cringe. One day you'll look back on it and see how much you've improved.

File: crying react.jpg (84KB, 434x353px) Image search: [Google]

84KB, 434x353px

I have a songwriting contest next month, but only songs in portuguese are allowed(because I'm in Brazil). I'm actually not a bad lyricst, but I've never wrote a song in portuguese since 2014 so I'm looking for the fastest way to spit some nice lines.

>>75065941
When it comes to writing in general, you either do it so much that you get good at it, or, in contrast, you're like Joyce, Faulkner, and Nabokov (to name a few lucky souls), who are just so effortlessly good at writing that it's disheartening. I cannot relate to the latter scenario, but I still do have some tips: one, write what you know, even if you don't think it's interesting; two, write how you speak; and three, have a developed idea before you start writing in the first place.