Low Notes
Random musings about the writing process through the life experience of the music-making process.
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There’s More Than One Way to Save The Cat (opens the original)
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Uh, Jay, I believe the saying is “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”Why yes, imaginary Substack character of doubt, that is the correct saying. I opted to use my favorite punnage (pun+adage= punnage) for this month’s title. How’d I do?Save the Cat is one of SO DANG MANY popular and favored writing craft books out there in the world. I probably use about 33% of its concepts in my work without even thinking about it. The rest of my output comes from all the other books out there, such as St
Ain't No School Like the Old School (opens the original)
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