Day 32: Screw Blog Titles, I Have a Song!

Earlier this week, the unthinkable happened; I finished writing a song. The song does not have a title yet (As you can tell, I'm not the best title brainstormer), but it has a lot of heart and a lot of potential to be great. The rest of my process will be adding a melody to the lyrics and recording myself singing the song. Writing this song has been one of the most difficult and time consuming processes I've ever been through, but it has not been a waste of time.

This song writing process has been mostly tough because of frequent writer's block. I believe the frequency came from my need to write in chronological order, which in this case was tough because that meant writing about the Aurora Theatre Shooting first. The Aurora shooting was tough to write about because it was the least recent of the tragedies and while generating pieces of metaphor, I had written about it the least. If I had started with the Boston Bombing first, the most recent and resonant tragedy, I might have been able to snowball more writing and ideas. 

Now that I know this is an issue, I've taken it upon myself to correct it. I'm currently working on a big, secret film project, and I've been working on it piece by piece. The first clip I finished was the easiest to make and set the tone of the project. My work has been much more focused and frequent, and I've dealt with much less block. I'm glad that I suffered through this song writing process so my future creative processes can benefit.