Lyrically Speaking for December 4

As most of you already know, I am a big fan of Dido. Her first two albums are filled with great words and melodies that speak to me. I’m sure there are songs of hers that you specifically enjoy. Well two weeks ago she released her third album Safe Trip Home, bringing [...]

Lyrically Speaking for October 23

I know what you’re thinking. “A Lyrically Speaking Post?? It’s only Thursday!” and you are correct if you’re surprised to see some musical poetry on the day before the end of the week. I’m a bit surprised that I wanted to post this series today, but there is good reason. What [...]

Lyrically Speaking for October 17

Hey it’s Friday everyone and I’m here to bring you another song that I think has great lyrics and also sounds great. This week, I bring you an interesting song that I didn’t know about a few months ago. As I’ve mentioned previously, I listen to Pandora a lot when I write and [...]

Lyrically Speaking for October 10

Hello and good Friday to everyone! Today I wanted to go a little more mellow with the song selection this week. I selected Yellowcard because many people don’t know their album Ocean Avenue had a lot of good songs besides what made it on the radio. I think you’ll all find this [...]

The Weekender: Oct 3 – 5

Hey C.N. crew! I was thinking of starting up a new series here for everyone to enjoy during the weekends. Inspired by the NY Times, The Weekender is a series where I want to talk more in-depth or critically about writing, reading, current events that are writing related, etc. I hope that [...]

Lyrically Speaking for October 3

Good Friday everyone! Today brings a new edition of lyrically speaking for all of you to enjoy. I wanted to bring it back home a little bit and let you guys know about a local band that you all probably have heard of. The band nine days had their breakout hit “story of a girl” [...]

Have it Your Way- Freezing Point (Kindle Edition)

Some of you who visit Copious Notes also visit Melanie’s blog, where she talks about her writing in Mexico. For a while now, she has been talking about her Aunt Karen Dionne and her new book that is coming out in just a few days titled Freezing Point. I’ve been excited about this [...]

The right place, at the right time

**I want to preface this post by letting you know that I am dictating the entry to you. I apologize in advance for any we are grammatical errors.**
If you guys ever checked out the right-hand column of this blog, you will see an item for a blog that’s called “something she wrote”. Janna wrote [...]

Lyrically speaking for August 29

Happy Friday everyone! It’s that time of the week where, first you’re ready to get on with your great three-day holiday weekend. But that also means today is another edition of lyrically speaking. Now, I know some of you are already off-line for the great weekend and I understand if you don’t really care about [...]

Lyrically Speaking for August 22

Happy Friday everyone! This week I bring to you another song that I’ve been really into these past few weeks. Sometimes a song comes around that you just really enjoy listening to, not just for the lyrics but also because the melody is really great. I don’t even mean great in that [...]