Comments on: How Structure Can Loosen You Up https://diymfa.demo.cmsminds.net/writing/structure-can-loosen-you-up/ Tools & Techniques for the Serious Writer Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:23:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robyn Groth https://diymfa.demo.cmsminds.net/writing/structure-can-loosen-you-up/#comment-897 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:02:00 +0000 https://diymfa.com/?p=7431#comment-897 In reply to Chris Norbury.

Thanks, Chris! That is a fascinating comparison. To further the music-writing connection, the ASL sign for music is the same as the sign for poetry except for hand shape – like poetry is music in words.

]]> By: Chris Norbury https://diymfa.demo.cmsminds.net/writing/structure-can-loosen-you-up/#comment-896 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:21:00 +0000 https://diymfa.com/?p=7431#comment-896 Good post, Robyn. I liken structure in writing, freeing the writer to be more creative, with improvisation in jazz. I much prefer improvisation based on a predefined chord structure–such as the “I Got Rhythm” 32- bar chord progression, or a 12-bar blues chord progression– than I do a free form improvisation with no melody, no rhythm, no harmonic structure. Great improvisers managed to say more musically when confined to those chord progressions than when free to play with no structure or definition at all.

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