Today goes down in history as the day I kicked writer's block in the teeth. For the past couple of days I have been stuck on one line. One single line before the second chorus and verse, and I could not figure it out for the life of me. And so I've been absorbing more folk and reading more about Bob Dylan (fun fact: Bob Dylan's music was influenced by a wide variety of music. I may want to try branching out my music to influence my work). However I haven't had much luck.
Now I know what you're thinking. I should probably just move past the one line and come back to it later. Well I'm sorry to say that that's not how I function. I have to write in chronological order. That's how I write papers, poems, and scripts, and that's how I write music. I'm trying my best to overcome this, but for now I will have to live with my own writing style.
There were two things that made today successful. First of all I took my headphones out. I usually listen to a playlist of folk music while I write, however today the music was more distracting than helpful. Second I went back to previous lines and changed them around to generate more possibilities for the one line. Lo and behold, I wrote that one line. It's a pretty good line too, if I do say so myself.
I'm behind schedule at this point because I had hoped to finish a draft of the lyrics by last week. Hopefully now that I've cleared one major writer's block, I'll be able to clear any future blocks pretty quickly.
Friends, what do we say to writer's block? Not today.
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