My Plans For 2009

I’m using the month of December to review what I’ve done in 2008 and start planning for 2009.

I do this every year and I always get a little excited at this time because I love the thought of starting a new year with a clear slate.

Looking back I realised that I used 2008 as a year of establishing some sort of foundation for my songwriting/online music marketing activities. All was going pretty well until about July when the wheels started to fall off the wagon.

This is where I started taking too much on. This was the beginning of burn-out.

Here are 12 things I did in 2008:

1. (Feb) Shifted home office to external office
2. (Feb) Started the original Songwriting Zen Blog
3. (Apr) Started building a Songwriting Studio
4. (Apr) SCALA’s FOOM Songwriting Competition
5. (May) Songwriting Zen Forum launched
6. (May) Present Songwriting Zen Blog launched
7. (May) I’m interviewed on SongCatcher radio program
8. (Jul) Co-ordinator of the Sing Out Songwriting Project
9. (Jul) Sunday Singer/Songwriter Showcase commences
10. (Jul) I accept the 50/90 challenge
11. (Sep) I moved house
12. (Nov) Sing Out 2008 finished

No wonder 2008 seemed like a blur. Now onto 2009.

One of the first things I’ll be doing is shifting my external office back to a home office. Even though I enjoy the office environment I love my home environment even more and besides, not paying two lots of phone and internet charges will make the bank balance look a little better.

I’m almost ready to roll out another free eReport for you all. It’s called “11 More Ways To Eliminate Writers Block FOREVER!” and the title really says it all.

Other services I’ll be wanting to roll out in 2009 are:

Song Feedback/Critiques
Songwriting Coaching
Songwriting Workshops

I want to be expanding my song collaboration network as well as the Open Mics plus the Singer/Songwriter Showcase concept. Maybe then I might find some time to write that Songwriting Zen book and record songs for my first CD release as well.

Watch this space…

Until next time, happy writing,

Corey Stewart
Singer/Songwriter/Musician

Keywords: songwriting, songwriter, writing, songwriting zen, songwriting tip, songwriting idea, songwriting blog, songwriting resource, corey stewart

Be Sociable, Share!

No related posts.

Tags: Corey Stewart, music, song, Songwriter, Songwriting, songwriting blog, songwriting tip, writing, zen

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Corey Stewart

3 Comments to My Plans For 2009

JP says:

December 17, 2008 at 11:41 pm

Glad to see you’re keeping the site here going into next year. There are sooo many blogs devoted to the business of music, but way to few discuss the actual process of creating music. Go figure.

Here’s to a happy 2009 to all!

songwritingzen says:

December 19, 2008 at 10:41 am

I totally agree JP. More information on the creation of music please.

Have a great Xmas, 2009 is going to be a great year.

Corey

Home Is Where The Muse Lives | Songwriting Zen says:

January 12, 2009 at 10:27 am

[...] mentioned last year in my post “My Plans For 2009″ I moved my external office back home again. I took last week out to do it and finished everything [...]