11.11.25 - ‘Reason’

I love looking at the clouds, and many songs have had their start by this cloud-gazing. So that’s where this project is starting!

The creative process is one that needs to be stewarded well, continually refined, and exercised daily. I’ve given myself a month-long challenge of accomplishing the same creative task every day. My goal was three-fold: write something, record something, share something.

Each day, I’ll take a picture of the clouds that day. Visually, I think this will be a rewarding outcome in the end!

I’ll also write something. I’m keeping the bar achievable, so it doesn’t need to be an entire song. It doesn’t even need to be a great start. But it must be something.

And then I’ll combine the visual with the auditory and have a creative piece to post. My calendar will be populated by these ‘cloud comps.’ Some song might come from it, it might be nothing more than getting all the bad ideas out. But the end result will be the continual honing of the creative discipline. And a cool calendar with clouds to look at!

THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY:

This one started with a very little idea, just the feeling of not being sure what to write. And sometimes, all it takes is a seed of an idea to have a direction to go in.

When I’m writing these, I don’t always have a sense of where it would belong in a full song. Is it a verse? Is it a chorus? Is it a half-baked ida that needs far more refinement? But there’s a nice freedom in not needing to have the full puzzle worked out, only a small section.