11.04.25 - ‘Ballroom’

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:

Before I went to my studio to work on today’s challenge, I took a moment to look around my living room and take note of what caught my eye. (Songs don’t always need something ground-breaking for inspiration!) Coming through my back sliding door were a bunch of moving shadows as the tree branches moved with the breeze. I took an extra moment to try and figure out what kind of color the shadows were, as if I were to paint them and had to select which colors to mix.

Then I went to my studio and wrote this little piece about dancing in the pine forest. Sometimes writing is just that linear!