SHORTS: MY BOY ONLY BREAKS HIS FAVORITE TOYS by Taylor Swift

02/07/2024 20 min Temporada 1 Episodio 11

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Episode Synopsis

Studying the craft of writing with the help of lyrics from Taylor Swift? Don't threaten us with a good time! This month, we do a close reading of the lyrics from the song My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys off of The Tortured Poets Department. The story of this song gives us an opportunity to look at how a narrator can effectively communicate their conflicted mental state and convince us of both their lucidity and delusion at the same time. With this example, we're continuing to circle around one of our primary writing obsessions here at the ARTWIFE Book Club: how do we as writers find a balance between being coy & withholding and didactic & excessive? As ever, Taylor Swift shows us. Hop in!