SAC Song Writing Challenge #3 - collaborate with someone else

SAC song writing challenge #3

In this challenge we had to collaborate with another person who is part of this song writing group.  I responded to the call of Jennifer Noble who lives in my city.

We spoke by phone and she indicated that she had the word "rattle snake" rolling around in her brain and thought it might be nice to work with it.

I went down to her home.  We started with a cup of tea and a nice chat.  Then we got to work.  We determined that we wanted our character to refer to him or her self as "rattle snake" because of a tatoo they had gotten.

We discussed stories of people who seemed touch on the outside but inside were softies.

At first we thought our character would be an 18 year old male motor cycle rider who is trying to persuade a new girl of his approximate age to come for a ride with him.

To get our thoughts out we did a letter writing exercise.  Each of us separately wrote a letter from the boy to the girl.  Then Jennifer and I read the letter to each other and extracted the interesting phrases.  Eventually we decided to turn it around and make it the girl who is the biker trying to persuade a new boy in town to ride with her.

I normally would have sung on the recording with Jennifer, but I had to go out of town on the Saturday that the recording studio was booked, so Jennifer is doing it solo.  I know she will do a good job.