Ok so I'm a nerd/geek/whatever you want to call it and I've recently discovered a love for comics in general, and webcomics in particular. One of my favorite ones, Least I Could Do has a news feed that either the writer or the artist will post to regularly. (linking things with words is FUN)
There is something vaguely music related coming. Wait for it.
Anyhow, he wrote this big long post about meeting deadlines, which I read because hey! What the hell? And it turns out there was kind of a profound, helpful idea in it.
He talks about not being in a creative mood and how that affects finishing projects and meeting deadlines, and his way of combating it. I'll spare the details, but basically he just starts working on something else that is also creative in nature to get his juices flowing and then returns to the original project.
Now, as the guy who has started a song in July and finished it in October (with no progress twixt the points), this idea seemed bloody BRILLIANT. So I've been writing this new song for acoustic, which is depressing, which is not surprising because most songs I write are depressing. Moving on.
I tried it tonight; my friend Cait and I are doing a narrative style blog, set in a post-apocalyptic world in which we each write from the perspective of our characters. It's a really fun way of writing, because neither of us knows what's going to happen next. Anyhow, I was writing this new song, and I've hit a wall at this one part; I have no idea where to go next. So I thought "hey, I'll try the Lar Desouza method" and I wrote a new post to further the story. Then I returned to the song and even though I didn't come up with any lyrics, part of me felt that progress was made. So I don't know; thus far I don't have any tangible proof that this method works, but I'm gonna try it out and see if it's a good habit to get into.
\m/,
Brian
PS: Don't click this. Seriously.
PPS: I wasn't lying. Linking is awesome.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
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