Songwriting Zen

Well, it’s been a little over a year since I started Songwriting Zen (on February 29th, 2008) and I must say I’m very proud of my songwriting blog.

It’s given me a forum to share with you my thoughts and feelings about the wonderful craft of writing songs. It’s also enabled me to get to know other from all over the world, the networking opportunities are endless.

One of the most interesting sides of running a website/blog is the statistics that you can collect and the conclusions you can draw from that information.

Below are the 10 most popular posts/pages over the past 12 months and the amount of views these posts/pages received:

What does this mean? People are looking for information on songwriting and the creative process. People want to tell the world their stories through music and that they are using Songwriting Zen as one of the websites that provides them with what they are looking for.

What are people looking for when it comes to songwriting information? Well, here are the top 10 keyterms that people are type into their search engines that lead them to Songwriting Zen and how many times these terms have been keyed in:

song writing ideas – 150
songwriting ideas – 129
songwriting – 106
songwriting help – 77
jingle writing contest – 49
songwriting prompts – 45
songwriting zen – 44
songwriters block – 40
jingle writing contests – 40
song writing – 36

People are looking for songwriting help, songwriting ideas, songwriting prompts and ways that they can beat (song) writers block. It’s heartening to find that what I’m doing with Songwriting Zen is on the right track.

As a songwriter I find one of the most important skills is listening. By using your ears you pick all sorts of phrases, rhythms and quotable sentences that make for good song lyrics.

When running a website/blog, the way you listen to your audience is either through your communication with them via comments and forums and/or your web statistics. I intend to write more about the songwriting process, creativity and useful songwriting tips.

This year however, I do want to expand into writing about songwriting theory and the business that surrounds the songwriting craft. More on that in the near future.

I also want to enlist your help a whole lot more. If you have any songwriting question that you want answered or have an idea for a songwriting article (or you want to write one and have it published on Songwriting Zen) then contact me and we’ll have a chat.

I’d love to hear from you. I want to listen.

Here’s to the next 12 months. Until next time, happy writing,

Corey Stewart
Singer/Songwriter/Musician

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