Writing Everyday

Just a quick post today, just a few days before Christmas. Developing songwriters should get into the habit og writing everyday. It's like keeping your muscles in shape. Have a desk or some place where you can keep all of your writing things so you can to that place anytime and go through your song ideas, choose one to work on and try to write a few lines. I've read how some writer sat down and wrote what turned out to be a great song in fifteen minutes. That has rarely happened for me. Instead, I have partial songs in a database in my computer and in notebooks I keep in a stack. I try to go there often and try and write a few lines on a few different ideas. When I'm lucky, inspiration will take over and I will write for hours or get new song ideas.

Let's talk about keeping your songs on your computer for a moment. I have a main file entitled "Joe's Music Files". In a sub folder under that I have "Joe's Original Songs". Under that I divide my writing into "Completed Lyrics", "Lyric Ideas", "Needs Melody", for lyrics I think are complete but have no tune and a few folders fo "Style" like Blues songs, Rock Songs, Gospel Songs and a few others. This arrangement helps keep me organized.

Like a lot of things, staying organized can help you keep things in order so you can be productive with your writing. Here's hoping you can stay organized and write some great songs.