Category: Writing

How Not to Write a Song, Part 3 – Back in the Saddle Again
by koree

After a long allergy season, I’m back to writing and practicing as I should be. Hoping to complete at least a demo version of an EP by the end of this summer.

I’ve found that one of my challenges in songwriting is that I hate my voice. Not the way I write, but I mean my actual physical voice. I have to stop letting that cloud my judgement, push through, and just focus on the message being delivered.

In the mean time, I’m also going to try to work on making my voice not suck.

How Not to Write a Song, Part 2 – Procrastination
by koree

It’s been almost two weeks since I last touched the project I’m currently working on. I’m in a funk about writing. When things don’t flow, I go into a downward spiral. That spiral includes thinking that, I’ve never written anything worth a shit, and I will never write anything worth a shit. Procrastination, for me, seems to be more about fear, and less about laziness.

Any time I face a creative endeavor, I’m opening myself up to failure. I’ve left myself very little room for failure in my life. To some, this may seem noble or like it’s a “good work ethic”, but not allowing one’s self to fail I think is very unhealthy. Sure, the quality of any work or creation that comes from me is going to be polished and as well done as I can achieve. However, I will accomplish fewer things, as the fear of failure makes me avoid certain tasks that will help me to grow.

How do I deal with this fear? How do I deal with failure? In the past, my modus operandi has been to wallow in it, to curl up in the (mostly proverbial) fetal position, and try to forget about whatever it was I failed at. But, I know that if I have any desire at all to create, I must be not only comfortable with failing, but willing to fail, and to do so on a grand scale.