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Day Eleven (Year Seven)

Today was a songwriting day, and it came about from a rather odd source.  I was going through posts on social media from this day in years past, and I had written something five years ago that, tonight, struck me as a line for a song.  I know a few basics about it... the song's in the key of C, and it's primarily acoustic in nature.  I can hear parts of it in my head, and tomorrow will be at least somewhat devoted to mining those parts and seeing what comes of them.

This was the first mental push from the songwriting side since I made up my mind about the four areas of study, and it was good.

The other thing I decided tonight is that, if I'm really going to get serious about the songwriting (and with three potential recording projects that will all need songs, I really ought to), one of the obvious things that I can do to help myself out as I get started again is to go through my iTunes, and make myself a playlist of songs I wish I had written, and then take at least a few of them each week and break them down, see how they're put together, see what makes them tick, and see what I can learn from them.  Initially, in my head, the thought was to look at one each day, but for fear of over-extending myself, I might knock it back to three a week at first, and then, if that feels like too much, knock it back even further.

This week has been a week of smaller victories, but it's only Wednesday, and there's still time for some of the big stuff to break through.
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