Don’t Force It! Let Your Songs Happen Naturally

Let’s clarify something here. Having a songwriting process does not mean that you force yourself to write songs.

Nothing gets done if you force things. It goes against nature itself.

In nature, changes happen in their own time and at their own pace. Things grow, evolve, breathe and become whatever they are designed to be.

The problem with us humans is that we try to hurry things along because we feel that nature moves too slow for us.

Its the same with songwriting.

With the songwriting process, all we’re trying to do is to get a constant flow of ideas happening and from there, songs will appear and develop.

We achieve this flow by writing without concentrating on the end result. When we engage ourselves in our songwriting process we are already moving towards completing a song.

This is automatic.

Have you noticed that when you sit down in front of a blank piece of paper and say to yourself “I am going to write a song now” you immediately put yourself under pressure to do just that.

Straight away your inner voice starts talking to you, saying things like “ok, it better be good” or “are you sure you have something to write about” or “don’t you have something more important to do right now?”

More often than not we give into our inner voices and find reasons not to write. This is where the writers block cycle starts.

If you look at each day of your life as a means creating possible songwriting ideas you’ll incorporate songwriting as a part of what you do, just like getting up in the morning.

If, in your day to day songwriting activity you become inspired to finish a song then great. If nothing comes from the activity then, great. You’re still doing what you love..

Can you see where I am going with this?

Don’t force songs to come out, get out of your own way and let them happen and they will appear soon enough.

Remember, it doesn’t matter what you write it just matters that you write. Doing this will allow your songs to breathe, grow and evolve from the ideas that you come up with.

Have faith in yourself because you are a songwriter and writing songs is in your nature.

Until next time, happy writing,

Corey Stewart
Singer/Songwriter/Musician

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