More new material

Lately I've been on a rather surprising writing spree. Three fun songs in the last month, one worship song, a poem or two... you'd think I was back in the middle of my teenage angst years (not that I had any of those, mind you).

This brings the total number of recorded pieces I've got on my computer to... 23. 7 of those are singing songs, and the rest of them are a combination of instrumental/electronica, and spoken word with instrumental backdrops. If I can keep up this pace... well my head will explode.

It makes me think about the creative process in an entirely new way. Often when I've written a song, or a poem, or an electric thingy (My genre of choice) my wife and my parents-in-law will look at me and say...

Um... where did you get that from

... since the ideas are normally odd, quite odd, terrifyingly odd. I'll go for months and months with no creative output at all, I mean ZERO. Then it's as if a cork pops out of some blocked neuron bundle full of strange ideas that all come rushing out at once, and I feel like a bear in a stream full of salmon, trying to catch the ideas as they shoot on by. More often than not, at least one fantastic idea gets lost as I'm going home on the bus, or walking to class without the aid of a guitar or a recording device of some sort (and those memo taker things don't work either because I would need to synthesize for a good ten minutes before I'd have the idea firmly embedded in my head).

SO... where does this lead?

Beats me!

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