It's been a while since I've written. With the exception of this blog and work, I've done almost nothing in terms of writing for a few years now. I'm not sure why I stopped journaling with a pen into a paper book. I'm not sure why I stopped writing fiction and poems on a regular basis.
It's also been a long time since I've worked on music or songwriting--more creative things I abandoned for no good reason. So weird to think that there was a time in college where almost every spare moment was spent recording or songwriting or spilling ennui into the pages of some unsuspecting journal. I occasionally dig out recordings from that era and it's like listening to someone else sing words I don't remember making up. Fortunately, a good friend got things rolling in the music field again, and this week we got together to work on some songs. I took some time this week to go through my stack of old journals and poetry and find things that are worth reworking or using as ideas.
They say that one must write 1,000 pages before anything worthwhile comes out of your pen. I believe it. Heck--make that 2 or 3,000...10,000 pages. And it's not exactly like riding a bike, this. I haven't song-written in a while, and it shows. It's going to take some awkward maneuvering and major rewriting to get back to a point where I have anything worthwhile on paper. I have managed to carefully eke out a couple things this week that I'm not embarassed to sing.
That's a pretty darn good start. Things are looking up.
2 comments:
So glad to hear that you're doing this! I still have a cassette tape of a few songs you and Casey recorded at SAC. :) Sometimes I dig it out and get all nostalgic.
Like I said, I love the Houdini (sp?) song, love the lyrics. You're so talented, I'm glad you guys are working on some music...
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