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As singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier explained in her thick New Orleans accent to me during the summer of 2015, “you need to put the pot back on to boil a little longer.” She was right. Mary’s words helped me not only improve the song I was working on, it also helped me improve my writing. To return the pot to boil is to simmer down the wasted words, weak words, extra syllables, and non-critical ideas until the only thing on the lyric sheet left is pure.
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Goering, C.Z. (2016). Language Power. In: Johnson, L.L., Goering, C.Z. (eds) Recontextualized. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-606-4_11
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