MarlonBarnes

does one go about doing this?

the hardest part for me is completing a song…

Are there techniques or something to use??

I’ve completely written 4 or 5 (something like that) songs already. One about Halloween, one about cake, one about being a zombie, one about not being in love, and at least one more. But the problem is, there are times, sometimes at random, sometimes when I’m around art, quite often in the shower, a song hits me and I have to record or write it down immediately or I lose it (preferably record because writing takes too long and pieces get forgotten while I’m doing it). It’s like completely original songs pass through my head (mostly via improvisation) but only make one pass. they just go straight in and out and I have to catch them before they’re completely gone.

Things get REALLY difficult when I only catch pieces of them and have to fill in the rest, or if I have a chord progression down with no lyrics, or lyrics with no music, or just a melody. the hardest part is lyrics with no music, because it’s (relatively) easy to just let my mind go to music but not to take words and put music to them.

I guess, in a sense, I’m not writing songs, I’m just catching free floating ones and I’d kind of like to use this 43things thing to try and cultivate the creativity required to fill in the missing pieces/make sure my lyrics don’t suck.

So there’s this author, named John Green whose books my older sister and my knowledge of a very attractive girl who enjoys his books/my futile desire for a conversation topic convinced me to read. (atmittedly more of the latter)

He has written some of the most entertaining, fascinating, un-put-down-able books I have ever encountered.

I ended up reading everything he’s published so far (three books and a short story). They’re fantastic! The stories are compelling, the characters are fantastic and outrageous, all with that hint of “I know someone like that”. Plus gallons upon gallons of humor riddled with stuff that make you stop and think both academically and philosophically. I don’t think it would be going too far to say that what he does with writing is what literature is all about.

I mean, it’s the general stereotype that people that read a lot have a better grasp of the English language (or…you know, what ever language they read in) and increase their intelligence, but recently I’ve been pretty irritated by the fact that there were all these huge book trends where-to put it simply-hordes of idiots were reading thousands upon thousands of pages and not getting any smarter. So I felt like, what’s the point? (especially with the coming of Twilight) They obviously read way more than I do and I’m obviously a lot better off, I can’t be missing out. No point in changing my habits of entertainment, education, and free time spending with some mindless filth that isn’t even well written.

And then came Paper Towns, the greatest book I’ve read (that includes the “read part of” category) in years! It was like reading became respectable again. Nothing about any of John Greens books felt like a waste of time and definitely none of it was boring.

I’m glad I did it.