“The Songwriter’s Blueprint is a novel, step-by-step approach to organizing and focusing your lyrics. An excellent tool to help the developing songwriter craft strong lyrics that tell their story with imagery and detail.”
     Jason Blume - author of 6 Steps to Songwriting Success -
     Change My Mind-John Berry - Dear Diary-Britney Spears

“I think the Songwriter’s Blueprint is a very useful organizational tool for beginning songwriters as well as professionals. It’s about time someone made it possible for a songwriter to keep all his ongoing work in front of him in a way that makes it convenient and easy to keep track of. He can now spend more time being creative and less time searching for that one scrap of paper with the great line on it that he misplaced somewhere under the pile of pizza boxes and unpaid bills. I would recommend The Songwriter’s Blueprint to anyone who wants to work more efficiently.
     Jon Ims

”The best brainstorming tool I’ve ever used.”
     AB - Arizona

“A Brilliant idea!”
     MB - Michigan

“it has revolutionized my writing... Thank you!”
     WD - Florida

“my re-writes are much better when I use it.”
     MC - New York

“My publisher has no idea why my songs are better than ever!”
     DW - Nashville

The Muse’s News - February 2003
Songwriting Book Review: by James Linderman
“The Songwriters Blueprint” - by Christine Anderson
Blueprints are used to build a vast array of stuff. They provide detail, insight, overview, and of course, purpose and intention and bring it all into display. This is usually for the eventual execution of the assembling of the parts to make something become complete. It is also what bridges the gap between the vision of a thing and it’s coming into being.

So...why not a blueprint specifically designed to help bring the vision of a song into being?  Songwriters are notorious for (among other things) racing into the songwriting process without much planning or plotting and we all know that practically every endeavor is proven to be more successful when we front load some of the labor, so...

Let’s have a look at The Songwriters Blueprint by Christine Anderson and see if it’s the blueprint for songwriting success.

To start with this blueprint is an actual blueprint (yes, with actual blue printing!) 18" x 24" and wonderfully laid out and proportioned.

On the cover page we have an intro and some instructions, which are refreshingly brief and a bio of the author, refreshingly qualified. There is an outline of what’s inside and some tips on title development, which is one of the primary keys to the successful creation of the song you will write with this tool.

On the next 7 pages there are boxes to fill in with the raw materials your song will be constructed from, with your title as the foundation.

As you go from brainstorming to plotting the storyline, from listing
synonyms and antonyms to building character sketches, you will see the song slowly and methodically come into being. The Songwriters Blueprint, like most blueprints, is logical, systematic and comprehensive, all the things that your brain is usually not when trying to write a song from scratch.

This means that instead of spending mountains of time “dreaming” up the right words, idioms, phrases, hooks, morals of the story or twists of fate, you will very likely be able to look them up on the pages of the blueprint and really devote all of your creative energy to the bigger picture, the song itself.

On a construction site, when the carpenter runs out of 2x4’s and has to take a trip to the lumber store in the middle of the job, the sound that his hammer makes for the next few hours, is silence. Silence is also the sound that our songs make when we run out of creative materials and so it’s great when something like this comes along to encourage us to stock up at the inception of our job when we know we want to do some.

in the last 2 pages, the blueprint asks us to slowly draw the song content into a standard kind of song form. With all the previously gathered information poured into these pages, I can see how it’s entirely possible that a song could virtually write itself.

This is certainly well worth checking out.

I used The Songwriters Blueprint in a workshop in January and everyone thought that it was very cool. I am going to definitely write a song with it myself next time I have some time to write... like as soon as I’m done writing this review.



American Songwriter Magazine
It’s Great

American Songwriter magazine
January\february issue 2003
Page 54.
Songwriter’s tools- the right tools for the write job.
Reviewer: Diana Black
The songwriter’s Blueprint encourages the serious writer to explore new ideas, hone the craft and organize the creative process all in one space!

Nashville Scene
It’s cool