11.05.25 - ‘Find Me’

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:

By doing this challenge, I find it easier to write in the moments when I’m not sitting down to write. It kind of primes the brain to continue to process in the background.

This day’s comp really started the night before as I had a thought and quickly recorded a voice memo of it. It made it much easier to then sit down with some ideas already formed and the writing time became more of a refining time.

It’s the same as the habit of sketching before committing to a full drawing. Having a handful of ‘sketches’ can make it a lot easier to figure out which drawing to go with.