Create A Song Prompt: Noun + Verb

Nouns and verbs are powerful elements of a song.  Create your own song prompt with a NOUN + VERB combination that surprises you!

If you really want to push your creative thinking, then start putting together words that don’t logically go together.  This one is a Noun+Verb Mashup.

As an ongoing exercise, keep an excel worksheet with columns for nouns, verbs and adjectives. Now mix and match whenever you need a creative jolt!

I’ve included an example of how to use the list of ten below (my work in italics below each step).

 

How To Create Your Own Song Prompts!

 

1  Choose a noun and pair it with a verb down the list

 

Ghost Tumble(s)

Ghost Crack (careful . . . )

Ghost Remember(s)

Ghost Trace

 

2  Think about what the combo means: write a sentence or a short paragraph defining it

 

A ‘ghost trace’ is the essence of someone left behind. The thing we see when we’re in the park and just for a second, catch a glimpse of them, but then remember they’re gone from the earth.

 

3  Change your verbs to match the noun and context

 

I’m good!

 

4  Now do a 90 second object write using the prompt (stop at 90 sec.)

 

Walking in the park yesterday I strolled past the tree we carved our name in that winter when it was empty and no one else could see. I ran my hand over the bark and for a second could feel you right beside me – your breath in my ear, warm and soft. Heard you whisper my name – but I knew you weren’t there – just a ghost trace.

But it’s the feeling that keeps me going each day. A presence that I see here an there. On the street, in your nieces and nephews, in the old coffee mug in the cupboard chipped on the lip – you never let me throw it away. STOP

 

Your Turn!

 

 

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