Last post, I wrote about my first song and how far my songwriting has come since then. The timing couldn’t have been better. All through the next week, the words were ringing in my head… embrace the cringe… That week, I recorded a few of my songs for the first time. In our last post,Continue reading “Recording Songs and Rethinking Posts”
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Embrace The Cringe!
Around this time last year, I found an old folder in my music cupboard that held notes of some of the first songs I’d ever written. Naturally, I set it on my piano’s music stand and started playing through them… The first song I ever wrote (and wrote down) was based on a book IContinue reading “Embrace The Cringe!”
Storytelling Tips from an Unlikely Source II
Just like you can learn from your mistakes, and other peoples’ mistakes, it turns out you can learn from things you don’t enjoy. These lessons are taken specifically from two books in Matthew Reilly’s Jack West Jr series: The Four Legendary Kingdoms (FLK, book four) and The Three Secret Cities (TSC, book five). While IContinue reading “Storytelling Tips from an Unlikely Source II”
Fifty Prompts; Zero Excuses
Here are fifty songwriting prompts, put into five different categories according to their focus and intention. Use them to practice songwriting, develop skills, and as diving boards into the creative pool. I hope they’re fun, thought-provoking, and most of all, that they help you get inspired and singing a little bit easier 🙂 General PromptsContinue reading “Fifty Prompts; Zero Excuses”
Four Things I’ve Learnt While Editing my Novel
To commemorate starting the fourth draft of my novel, An Experiment in Time and Memory. Every time I work on my novel, I learn something new about my characters, my world, myself, and, most of all, the writing and editing processes. Editing is painful, but it’s worth the effort. The first draft of this bookContinue reading “Four Things I’ve Learnt While Editing my Novel”
I Only Create When I Feel Inspired to… Is That a Problem?
Staring at a blank page for hours, trying to think of what to do with it, is discouraging. But if we don’t have inspiration, should we even try? And how can you create without being inspired?
Debbie Coll 