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Here is some general background on how to go about using Liptikl to create lyrics.

To create a lyric, simply type in some rough fragments of song lyrics or other source text, paste in some other media, and type in a few more words that you like. This is like taking some good basic ingredients, and throwing them in the mixing bowl.

Then press generate a few times. You'll like some of the word combinations it throws together (remembering Liptikl tries to rhyme where it can); lock those words in place, and keep going a few more times; locking or unlocking as you see stuff you like.

Then you could change some words by hand, look up a couple via the thesaurus, paste them in to the source, run a few more times and blam there you have it. If you're lucky. Hopefully this will take only 4 or 5 minutes to come-up with a useful verse, without much thought; but of course we're used to using the tool, which helps!

The key thing with Liptikl is to involve yourself in the decision making, acting like a gardener, weeding-out the bits you don't like and tidying-up the bits you do.

So: start with good source words. Keep generating quickly until you see something pop-out you like. Lock-down the bits you do. Keep generating. Don't be afraid to direct edit what you see what you realise your own words can help - and lock-down your direct edits. Keep generating. And don't forget you can unlock bits you're no longer happy with, to release Liptikl to create more ideas for you.

Pete's Example

Good examples (that work for me!) are things like film titles, or phrases I like from a movie or book, and I also often just type in words that come to my head that presumably have just been floating under my sub-consciousness. If I'm listening to music (which I often am!) I'll type-in some mis-remembered lyrics from the artist. Or just do a grab from google searching for a few words. I don't spend more than a few minutes pulling ideas together. I guess other people might start from some lyrics they've been working on as a starter point. I'm no good at that, so start from a clean slate!

Pressing generate a few times gives me ideas. Here's an example of how to generate some ideas. I typed-in the above paragraph of instructions, pressed generate, and got:

often floating my I'm,
me! people or Good,
examples good have than,
grab lyrics which type.

I instantly saw a pattern in there, and changed the top two lines (left the second two as they are):

I'm often floating on my own
good people pass me by
examples good have than,
grab lyrics which type.

And locked-down every word in the top two lines.

I pressed generate a couple of times, realised I didn't have anything that rhymed with by! So, added a few words: try/deny/sky/fly cry. After a couple of presses I generated the following:

I'm often floating on my own,
good people pass me by,
sub-consciousness floating starter to,
I that guess try.

Changed 3rd line by hand to this below (and locked the 3rd line, and the final word in the 4th line):

I'm often floating on my own,
good people pass me by,
Feel my sub-consciousness caving-in,
I that guess cry.

Generated a couple of times, realised I wanted a final longer line, updated rule from 6 5 4 4 to 6 5 4 6, generated a couple more times,

I'm often floating on my own,
good people pass me by,
Feel my sub-consciousness caving-in,
my that listening try I cry.

And thought... aha! And modified the final line by hand to get my lyric:

I'm often floating on my own,
good people pass me by,
Feel my sub-consciousness caving-in,
Their listening makes me cry.