Song Writing Block is something that affects us musicians who create new songs. From time to time no matter what you want to write it does not happen…I can see it in my small and humble songwriting trek. For a couple of years I just had new ideas pushing through, day and night…non stop. Mind you I had a great deal of stress at work and the pandemic contributing to more and more songs. All this was a result of pain and misery in my soul. As the stress lessened nothing new blossoms in the idea department…
Every day I feel that need to create more songs. I try…my guitar is next to me everywhere, at work, in the studio, by my bedside, in a dining area, living room…I pick it up, try new sounds…and nothing. Sometimes I think I lost it for good…anxiety takes over and then I force it to write to maybe prove myself that I can do it. After all I have written about 100 songs in two years and got spoiled, riding this wave… Well I must be honest, I did write two songs last week. A bluesy gems, sounding great, lyrics are awesome, short and sweet. I guess I need to be patient to allow the soul to refresh and start again to follow these two new songs that actually chart a new path in my songwriting.
So in this struggle I want to tell everybody who writes songs or creates any art for that matter that it happens to all of us from time to time. I am not discouraged, patiently waiting for new ideas to poke through, like a plant that shows a little bit today to in a couple of days blossom to a new flower or a strawberry, or a bamboo…It is actually exciting to anticipate this new idea. In the meantime I can continue to enjoy the time with my wife, write a blog, take care of assembling songs into albums and dealing with the behind the scenes of you tube management, that has to be done sometimes otherwise it all piles up. So creative block is a blessing and maybe intended to give us time to do other things that are as important.
