write songs again

THIS IS MY VERY FAVORITE THING TO DO….well, next to traveling and writing of course :)
Music is my soul. I got so fed up waiting for other musicians to help me write songs (since i used to call myself a singer only) that I went and bought a keyboard, and a chord book and 6 months later had written about 15 songs and recorded all of them….til this day I’m still writing.

I used to write songs constantly – they just came to me suddenly and I would stop everything and rush to get it all down. Now I am finding life so busy that I haven’t written anything for about 4 years and I wonder if I have lost the ability that I had. I am just hoping that once I finish my degree (this is when the music stopped!) that I will be able to write songs again.

dancing on the floodgates.. Ill choke this town, yet. writers block – its just depression, but im right, not depressed. heroin seems to help a lot of musicians.. then again.. its just an inertia to overcome.

again
yes
again
i really want to write songs again

but it’s not that easy
need the right time and the right mood

One word differentiates this forum from the ‘write songs’ one, and that word is: ‘again’, meaning we’ve all written songs but for some reason or another can’t or don’t anymore. I totally fall into this category.

I have barely finished a song since 2003, when I released my first album. Before that I was hardly prolific. I haven’t been prolific since I was much younger and much less hard on myself.

I didn’t join this thread looking for answers or advice…although I would definitely appreciate anything kind that anyone has to say. I joined in order to be accountable. I want to achieve my ‘43 things’. So dammit, I’m going to report on my progress and hopefully someone out there will want to do the same, with me. We can cheer each other on. Sound good? :D

I have a few pretty good ones. Never taken off though, never played for anyone else…just for me.