"Is the glass of water half full or half empty?"
The reason why I ask you that question is that the answer that you give may determine how you see a blank piece of paper and ultimately your whole songwriting process.
A blank piece of paper can be one of two things. It can be:
1. Something to be fearful of, a scary journey into the unknown, the graveyard of yet another 'bad' song
Or...
2. The doorway to a world of infinite songwriting idea possibilities. A place where the muse is waiting for you to come in and play.
Let me ask you this.
Are you free to create whatever you want whenever you want without prejudice? Or, are you a writer that is shackled by the belief that you must obtain a quantifiable result everytime?
Which headspace would you rather be in?
I know that there are a lot of questions here but as songwriters we face these questions everytime we sit down and write something.
The main difference is that our answers to these questions are generally automatic and unconscious, and then we wonder why we are not writing anything.
Try this the next time you sit down to write a song. Look at the blank piece of paper in front of you as your friend, your playmate. Just the very thought of sitting down to write a song means that the muse has knocked on your door and asked if you could come out to play.
So play!
If you look at the world as being a glass half empty then the blank paper is proof that you 'havent achieved something'.
If you look at the world as being a glass half full then the blank paper is the doorway of infinite possibility.
Allow yourself to be free to create without prejudice. How is your blank paper looking?
Until next time, happy writing,
Corey Stewart
Singer/Songwriter/Musician
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