I also have been studying how the songs are structured in order to make one full album or, in the best example of Lin-Manuel Miranda, how a full musical is formed. Miranda takes each scene as its own song with its own genre of music. Some scenes are way more musical theatre, others scenes use the history of hip hop and beat-boxing to show the growth of a character from boy to man. Last night while I was listening to the song where a Loyalist gives a rebuttal to Alexander, I realized Miranda had written it as a baroque piece, starting with the main melody and then using variations later on.
By looking at our scenes this way, we can flow like music. We can bring some sort of focus to detail to a chapter when it is so easy to rush through that second act or see the book as a full piece and not as separate parts in a working machine. There won't be any filler, there won't be any useless lines. Now the problem is: what song do I use today?
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