songwriting

Run a co-writing session and generate titles and high-volume options with Pat Pattison's methods, the No-Free-Zone co-write protocol and feedback discipline, the Title Game (chained vowel-cascade title generation), title generation from an idea, and high-volume brainstorm dumps for ONE line or ONE section. Use when: 'co-write tonight', 'co-write rules', 'no-free-zone', 'Title Game', '10 titles fast', 'title candidates for X', 'give me 30 options for this line', 'brainstorm the whole chorus'. For blank-page/idea/fragment starts use /songwriting:workflow; for rhyme dumps use /songwriting:rhyme.

Review, audit, and rewrite a lyric with Pat Pattison's methods. Demo review at any completion stage, full-draft diagnosis against the five compositional elements and stable/unstable analysis, the pre-lock line/section audit checklist (tools, not gates), labeled variations across six axes, and critique-driven rewrite. Use when: 'what's wrong with my song', 'review my draft', 'is this any good', 'review this demo', 'audit this line before I lock it', 'give me 5 versions of line 3', 'rewrite this using Pat's checklist'. For blank-page starts use /songwriting:workflow.

Generate and diagnose metaphor with Pat Pattison's methods, the three types (expressed identity, qualifying, verbal), the three expressed-identity forms, collision drills (noun×verb, noun×noun, adjective×noun), playing in keys (fundamental → diatonic family → collisions), the two metaphor-finder questions, participles, transitive vs intransitive, simile as focus control, and grounded-metaphor diagnosis. Use when: 'I need a metaphor for X', 'generate metaphor options', 'metaphor or simile here', 'this metaphor feels dead', 'my song has no metaphor', 'sustain this image across the song', 'collide these words', 'what else has these characteristics'. For sensory raw material use /songwriting:object-writing; for cliche repair use /songwriting:object-writing cliche.

Scan lines and make structure serve meaning with Pat Pattison's methods. Meter (scansion, Paradigms I/II/III, Pentad, Goldilocks, the 'into' rule, In Memoriam quatrain, pitch-stress), prosody (motion-emotion, greedy spots, tone-of-voice, three phrasing types), section stability (stable/unstable scan), and lyric-melody alignment. Use when: 'scan this line', 'can this be common meter', 'is this verse stable or unstable', 'my words don't fit the music', 'greedy spot in line 2', 'set lyrics to this tune', 'does my song feel right'. For song sections/form use /songwriting:song-form; for rhyme use /songwriting:rhyme.

Generate raw sensory material with Pat Pattison's methods. Object writing (sense-bound, timed dives, the pivot chain, the seven-channel sense inventory, Rusty's-collar/Kami-kazi), an agent that performs the write itself, cliche taxonomy + redemption, and point of view (camera distance, pronoun consistency). Use when: 'object writing', 'you do the object writing', 'make this less abstract', 'show don't tell', '90-second writing prompt', 'this line sounds cliched', 'who is speaking in this lyric'. For metaphor use /songwriting:metaphor; for rhyme use /songwriting:rhyme; for daily curriculum use /songwriting:practice.

Build a songwriting practice habit with Pat Pattison's curriculum, the daily object-writing/craft routine and numbered exercises drawn from all four books (Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure structural exercises, Songwriting Without Boundaries 56-day curriculum, Essential Guide to Rhyming worksheets). Use when: 'daily practice plan', 'build a writing habit', 'give me a 90-second writing prompt', 'run me a numbered exercise', 'exercise 4.6', 'daily craft prompt'. For a one-off object-writing prompt use /songwriting:object-writing.

Find and stress-test rhymes with Pat Pattison's discipline. Identity check, stability-tier walk, vowel triangle, song-world vocabulary, mosaic/multi-word rhyme, cliche scan. Internal generation is primary (8-15 labeled candidates, never a single winner); the Datamuse API supplements for breadth/syllables/semantic field. Use when: 'rhyme this', 'find rhymes for X', 'why does this rhyme feel weak', 'mosaic rhyme', 'rhyme this proper noun', 'rhyme like Eminem', 'syllable count of X', 'rhyme worksheet'. For meter/scansion use /songwriting:meter-prosody; for line-volume dumps use /songwriting:co-write line-brainstorm.

Configure the songwriting plugin for this repository: inventory or scaffold the project-level prompt-template overrides under songwriting/templates/pat-pattison/, and confirm where craft artifacts land. Use when: 'set up songwriting', 'configure songwriting', 'songwriting setup', 'customize a songwriting template', 'override the co-write prompt', or a craft skill reports a bundled prompt to tune. Actions: check (read-only inventory, default) | apply (scaffold or remove overrides). Re-runnable and safe.

Build and balance song structure with Pat Pattison's methods. Section identification (verse/chorus/bridge/refrain), forms (AABA, verse/chorus, verse/refrain), the candy-bar rewrite, hook placement and hot spots, repetition/repainting (You-I-We, Past-Present-Future, hidden questions/commands), verse development and the box model, bridge writing, and Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure worked examples. Use when: 'is this verse/chorus or AABA', 'where should the title go', 'my chorus does not land', 'my second verse repeats the first', 'what goes in verse 2/3', 'write me a bridge', 'do I need a bridge'. For stability/scansion use /songwriting:meter-prosody.

Generate and refine Suno AI music prompts (v5.5). Style prompts, tagged lyrics, genre templates, troubleshooting, tips, features, and genre research via an action router. Use when: 'suno prompt', 'write suno lyrics', 'style prompt for suno', 'BPM prompting', 'vocal tags', 'fix garbled lyrics', 'voice cloning suno', 'suno genre', 'suno studio', or any Suno prompt-craft request.

Start-here situation router for songwriting with Pat Pattison's methods. Picks the scenario for a blank page, an idea/seed, a stuck fragment, a co-write, a diagnose-only pass, or a daily habit, and runs step-by-step coaching dialog. Also applies Pat's response filter to AI-generated material and points to going-deeper resources (Coursera / Berklee / columns / podcasts). Use when: 'I want to write a new song', 'I have nothing, just want to write', 'I have an image but no title', 'this fragment is stuck', 'walk me through writing this', 'guide me', 'where do I start', 'review the rhyme list this AI gave me', 'how do I go deeper'. Craft-specific requests route to the concern skills below.