Any Writers Wishing To Collaborate? Let Me Know!

I want to work with other lyricists, poets, writers and other wordsmiths.

Are you out there? If you are, I’d love to talk with you.

You see, I’m at the point in my songwriting where I want to start collaborating with other writers in a big way. For me, collaboration is the next step in my development as a songwriter.

I want to be able to shape songs out of different points of view and be challenged by sonically interpreting the experiences of others.

One of the main stumbling blocks I have in my songwriting process however, is lyric writing.

I know I have written a lot about this subject in earlier Songwriting Zen posts. I do write down the phrases I hear in conversation, I record my musical and lyrical ideas and I make copious lists of possible song titles but actually completing a song…

There’s my problem!

No matter how hard I try, my inner critic has a field day everytime I try to put lyrics down onto paper. It’s getting very hard to take my own advice and as a result my confidence as a lyricist is diminishing.

In essence, I’m becoming snowed under with all of my half finished songwriting ideas

It’s my hope that working with other writers will enable me to learn from them. I want to have the confidence needed to look at my completed song lyrics and say “I’m really happy with that.”

Are there any writers that want to collaborate with me? If so, contact me.

Lets make beautiful music together

Until next time, happy writing,

Corey Stewart
Singer/Songwriter/Musician

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Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Lyric Writing, Songwriting Collaboration

2 Comments to Any Writers Wishing To Collaborate? Let Me Know!

Jannie says:

September 25, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Hey, Corey, my lyrics haven’t gelled much in a few months either. So I’m gonna go nuts and put some more showtune ideas to melodies I’ve already got. You can get away with almost anything there. If Im not the Nashville type, why can’t I write a musical?

Maybe you just need to allow yourself to write whatever seems crazy or “not good?” Just let it out.

Jannie
(now actually with Comments on my blog!)

I’ve not had much luck with collaboration so far, sorry.