So, one month then...

My intention was to blog almost every day, or every day. But, as you can see, it's been one month.
What's happened in that month? Everyone in my house got that strange flu going around, I traveled w/ Hollis to Spfld. to see family and be near as my dad went through surgery (which he came out of very well, thank God), had friends come visit us for a weekend. So, it's been pretty busy.

The highlight of the month for me was my Stl. Songwriter's meeting. I always LOVE these meetings and because I haven't been to one since AUGUST, I was super excited to go. And it was so fun! I always feel so pumped and more creative when I leave those meetings.

I had really been struggling with my creativity or lack of creativity recently. I just felt like no matter what I did I couldn't come up with any good ideas, any good lyrics, nothing. A fellow songwriter and blogger Allie mentioned on her blog that sometimes we upset the TRY monster. As in, we try to hard and nothing gets done. That's exactly what it was like. I can find myself slipping in this mode where I feel like what I put out has to be wonderful, and therefore get stuck. Because, not everything will be wonderful. And I'm just starting out so more often than not, what I do is gonna need a lot of work. So, it's not about only putting out wonderful songs. It's about putting out songs, period. I just need to do it. And hopefully, the more I do it, the more wonderful it will become.

G.