Evolution of a Song-Week Ten

This week's song is born out of the feeling of being far away from someone and yet being very aware of their presence. Has this ever happened to you? It's a very strange feeling. Like you can feel this person out in the world, you're not communicating in anyway but the sense of them is very present.

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Evolution of a Song-Week Nine

Week nine started with a bit of doubt. Ok, a lot of doubt. "I have no ideas for songs, no melodies in my head (lies I was telling myself because I always have melodies in my head). How am I going to come up with a song?" But here's the thing, thinking like that does 2 things: 1) NOTHING and 2)distracts from the actual sitting/doing/writing of the song. Instead of thinking about what I was going to do, I should have (and eventually did) just sat down and started working it out.

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