Q4
The most important answer. Take your time. Specific details land hardest.
▸What good answers look like
- "She kept a wooden spoon by the stove for forty years and used it every Sunday for the family gravy. She prayed before every meal."
- "He worked thirty years at the same shop, fixing things nobody else could fix. He always called my mother by her middle name."
Q6
Optional, but a single inside detail makes a song unmistakably theirs.
▸What good answers look like
- "The wooden spoon she'd had since the year she got married — she'd wave it at us when we were misbehaving."
- "He'd take the long way home from anywhere — said the scenic route was the only way to actually see a place."
- "The DMV carpet was the worst shade of mauve either of us had ever seen — and we both noticed at the same time."
Q7
Q8
Internal use only. Shapes the writing room without naming itself in the lyric.
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