Do research on your song subject

Mary Gauthier, preparing for writing about her experience as an adoptee, read several books about adoption when writing The Foundling.1 Uddipana Goswami researched in preparation for writing about her own trauma.2 Leyla McCalla did the same, as I wrote in Best practices for sad songwriting.

  1. Saved by a Song pg. 151 ↩

  2. [How to heal through life writing Psyche Guides](https://psyche.co/guides/to-start-to-heal-from-trauma-in-your-life-write-about-it?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits)

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Best practices for sad songwriting
Best practices for sad songwriting Don’t just write sad songs. Mary Gauthier said at Folk Alliance International 2023 that songwriters...