Let's learn songwriting! Learn to write impactful and meaningful songs by writing great melodies, lyrics that move your listeners, and arrangements and chord progressions that evoke the right emotions.Do you want to write emotional and powerful melodies? Learn to write incredible melodies, regardless of your musical background.Do you wish you could write incredible lyrics that move your listeners? Learn how to write great lyrics that are worthy of being framed and hung up on your wall.Want t ...
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100 Years | Parallelism, Borrowed Chords, 2 Bridges, Non-Lazy Songwriting, and more
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►► Download the 6-Step Lyric Writing Checklist here: https://songwritertheory.com/lyricchecklist/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we talk about the power of parallelism in your lyrics, why bridges are the perfect song section to start utilizing modes and borrowed chords, the art of subtly different song structure in our songs, non…
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Everything You Want | Hook Writing, 3rd Verses, Wordplay, and More
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this episode of the new format of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're learning about Hook Writing, 3rd Verses, Wordplay, and more off of the song Everything You Want by my favorite artist, @VerticalHorizonMusic . We'll be covering what we ca…
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3 Things I'd Tell A New Songwriter To Avoid My Mistakes
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/By Joseph Vadala
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Songwriting Advice You've Never Heard Before
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/By Joseph Vadala
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Responding To Your Biggest Songwriting Struggles Part 9
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this bonus episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about your biggest songwriting struggles. We're going to talk through and attempt to give the solution or some advice as to how to get past the struggles you're having in your…
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How I’d Learn Songwriting (If I Had To Start Over)
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►► Download the 4 Pillars of Music Theory For Songwriters Guide here: http://songwritertheory.com/musictheoryguide/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about how I'd learn songwriting if I had to start over. After writing songs and continuing to learn for around 20 years, I'd certainly do things differently if I had the …
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Responding To Your Biggest Songwriting Struggles Part 8
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this bonus episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're continuing to respond to your biggest songwriting struggles. I asked you all what your #1 biggest songwriting struggle is, and you answered! And now I'm going through each of your res…
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about another factor leading to or signpost indicating how good a song is. This time we're talking about honesty. A song doesn't have to be literally true, but it definitely should …
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about 1 factor that seems to be one of the factors contributing to a song actually being good. We're talking about how every part of the song working together to communicate what th…
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Responding To Your Biggest Songwriting Struggles Part 7
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this Bonus episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're continuing to address your biggest songwriting struggles directly by responding to more of your responses to my survey. We'll be discussing struggles such as: - I Can't Get My Rhythm …
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Is This Perspective on Art Holding Your Songwriting Back?
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Guide here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're asking if this perspective on art is holding your songwriting back. I constantly hear people, including songwriters and musicians, say "Music is just all subjective", "Art is subjective", "There …
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►► Download the Musical Keys Cheat Sheet here: https://songwritertheory.com/keys/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about how learning chord types just got easier... because I'm going to tell you exactly what chords to learn in what order to be most effective at writing chord progressions for your songs. The way songwr…
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5 Songwriting Sessions That Will Change Everything
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Transcript: Something I think songwriters don't talk about enough are songwriting sessions, because not every songwriting session looks the same or should look the same. In fact, I think there are a lot of different types of songwriting sessions…
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Responding To Your Biggest Songwriting Struggles Part 6
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this bonus episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're continuing to talk about your #1 biggest songwriting struggles. We'll be talking about: I can't flow on a beat or sing on an instrument I'm not able to concentrate I often just give u…
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Create a 2024 Songwriting Plan You'll Actually Accomplish
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about the 3 Simple Steps To Create a 2024 Songwriting Plan You'll Actually Accomplish. We all have dreams, but we need to create goals off of our dreams, then break those goals down…
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►► Download the 6-Step Lyric Writing Checklist here: https://songwritertheory.com/lyricchecklist/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about the easiest way to write a song if you're overwhelmed with songwriting. There are a nearly infinite number of ways to write songs. We can start with chords, melody, lyrics, different…
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Responding To Your Biggest Songwriting Struggles Part 5
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this bonus episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're continuing to talk about your #1 biggest songwriting struggles. We'll be talking about: Where To Find "Great" Ideas for Songs Syllables and Meter for Lyrics What are the # of Words Pe…
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3 Easy Ways To STOP OVERTHINKING Your Song
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►► Download the NEW 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about 3 easy ways to stop overthinking your song. It can be so easy to run into writer's block when we are overthinking our songs. Overthinking can come from different places su…
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Responding To Your Biggest Songwriting Struggles Part 4
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►► Download the 6-Step Lyric Writing Checklist here: https://songwritertheory.com/lyricchecklist/ ►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Guide here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ ►► Write Great Sounding Music Every Time (Musical Keys Cheat Sheet): https://www.songwritertheory.com/keys In another bonus episode of the Songwriter The…
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3 Things That Will Make You A Better Songwriter You Don’t Want To Hear
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're going to talk about 3 Things That Will Make You A Better Songwriter You Don’t Want To Hear. We can't just talk about what we need to hear that we WANT to hear, so sometimes we have to go th…
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►► Download the 6-Step Lyric Writing Checklist here: https://songwritertheory.com/lyricchecklist/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about how we can write more songs in 2024. Obviously we also want to up our quality of song, but we also want to become more efficient at writing songs, more quick to eliminate blockers an…
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Responding To Your Biggest Songwriting Struggles Part 3
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Guide here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this bonus episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're continuing our discussion of YOUR biggest songwriting struggles, challenges, and pain points. We'll be addressing things like: How To Finish Songs How To Leverage Life Circumstances and Tra…
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Responding To Your Biggest Songwriting Struggles Part 2
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Guide here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this bonus episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're continuing to talk about your biggest songwriting pain points, struggles, and challenges. We'll cover things like: Finishing song recordings Making grooves Writing memorable melodies Talent…
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Responding To Your Biggest Songwriting Struggles Part 1
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►► Download the 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about YOUR biggest songwriting struggles. I sent out a survey asking you all what your biggest songwriting struggles and pain points are, and I'm going to respond to every single re…
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Kick Writer's Block To The Curb For Good ►► Download the NEW 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Guide here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Are you growing as a songwriter? We don't grow by default, we stagnate and wither away by default. But, as songwriters, we want to keep becoming BETTER songwriters every year. We should look back at our mus…
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The Untold Truth About Why We Aren’t Finishing Songs
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Start Writing Songs Now + Kick Writer's Block To The Curb For Good ►► Download the NEW 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/By Joseph Vadala
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Unlock Your Songwriting Potential with these 3 Principles
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Start Writing Songs Now + Kick Writer's Block To The Curb For Good ►► Download the NEW 20 Ways To Start Writing A Song Cheat Sheet here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ ►► Download the NEW 6-Step Lyric Writing Checklist here: https://songwritertheory.com/lyricchecklist/ 0:00 Intro 1:50 Be a Jack of Many Trades, Master of One 11:37 Write Your…
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►► Download the 6-Step Lyric Writing Checklist here: https://songwritertheory.com/lyricchecklist/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're talking about 3 principles for writing better lyrics. These principles for lyric writing will help you learn how to write lyrics better and end up with lyrics that you can be proud of. If you've e…
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►► Download the 10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Guide here: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ In this video, we're talking about 3 principles for writing better melodies. We'll talk through how to write a melody utilizing 3 core principles to get the best songwriting results. Writing melodies can be simple. Writing GOOD melodies is not so easy…
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3 Principles For Writing Better Chord Progressions
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►► Download the 4 Pillars of Music Theory For Songwriters Guide here: http://songwritertheory.com/musictheoryguide/ In this episode, we're talking about 3 principles for writing better chord progressions. Chord progressions are often a part of the songwriting process that people are confused by, so they just keep using the same 5 overused chord pro…
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Produce Pro Quality Music At Home with Reagan Ramm
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Check out Reagan's Mixing Checklist Here: https://www.orpheusaudioacademy.com/mixingchecklist In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we're having our first guest: Reagan Ramm of Orpheus Audio Academy. We're talking about how we all CAN produce pro-sounding music from the comfort of our homes using budget equipment. Knowledge is what is s…
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►► Download the 6-Step Lyric Writing Checklist here: https://songwritertheory.com/lyricchecklist/ In this episode of the Songwriter Theory Podcast, we talk about what I think is the single best way to write songs. Talking about how to write songs the best way is always going to be a bit loaded as we all have our preferences, but this is the method …
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6-Step Lyric Writing Checklist: https://www.songwritertheory.com/lyricchecklist/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about how to keep your lyrics on topic.By Joseph Vadala
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The Inherent Difficulties of Songwriting and How To Best Deal With Them: Part 2
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10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Music Theory Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/musictheoryguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph continues the conversation about some of the inhere…
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The Inherent Difficulties of Songwriting and How To Best Deal With Them: Part 1
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10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Music Theory Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/musictheoryguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about some of the inherent difficulties of so…
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3 Stories To Explain Why You Owe It To Yourself and Others To Record Your Music
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Your $250 Home Recording Studio Free Guide Link: https://www.songwritertheory.com/studio Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks through 3 stories to explain why you owe it to yourself and others to record your music.…
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10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about 10 different lies we tell ourselves that stop us from making music.…
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3 Powerful Literary Concepts To Help Us Write Better Lyrics
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6-Step Lyric Writing Checklist: https://www.songwritertheory.com/lyricchecklist/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about 3 powerful literary concepts that help us to all write better lyrics.By Joseph Vadala
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Primary Ways To Figure Out The Notes of Any Major or Minor Key
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Music Theory Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/musictheoryguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about the primary ways to figure out all the notes in any major or minor key.By Joseph Vadala
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10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about the benefits of (and what to actually look for in) a song tendencies audit.…
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5 Components For Subtly Alternate Song Structures
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10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about 5 different components to give your song a bit of an alternate song structure. Subtle enough that it doesn't seem t…
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10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about the core characteristics as well as when to use and how to use pre-choruses, post-choruses, refrains, and other sec…
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10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about the core characteristics as well as when to use and how to use verses, choruses, and bridges - the core 3 song sect…
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Musical Keys Overview: What They Are and How To Use Them
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Music Theory Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/musictheoryguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about what musical keys are at a high level, as well as how to make use of them.By Joseph Vadala
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3 Things You Should Probably Stop Worrying About as a Songwriter
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10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about 3 things we probably should stop worrying about as songwriters.By Joseph Vadala
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Maybe It's Time We Try Analog Lyric Writing Again
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10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about different reasons finishing a song is difficult and how we can overcome those difficulties to actually finish songs…
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Important Tasks To Do BEFORE You Record Your Song
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6-Step Lyric Writing Checklist: https://www.songwritertheory.com/lyricchecklist/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about the important tasks to do BEFORE you record your songs.By Joseph Vadala
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10 Ways To Start Writing A Song Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/ 4 Pillars of Music Theory Free Guide Link: http://songwritertheory.com/musictheoryguide/ Love the content and want to support Songwriter Theory? Feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/josephvadala Joseph talks about 3 ways to make sure you wr…
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