I have just completed five months in a row of daily composing. In that time, I have written over 100 new pieces (!), some of which I have shared here (including this…
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Day 91: Ongoing Furnace of Creativity
I have been composing daily for four months. In that time, there have been many ups and downs in my mood and mindset. Sometimes I felt great, sometimes not so much. Sometimes…
Day 80: Appreciating Open Creative Valves
Writing out my thoughts for these blog posts, I find it’s pretty easy to circumvent “the censor,” as “The Artist’s Way” author Julia Cameron calls the resistant inner critic that tries to…
Day 45: A Transcendent Production of “The Secret Garden”
This is a two-parter pertaining to musicals 🙂 Part #1: A Transcendent Production of “The Secret Garden” For many years now, my wife has shot pictures for “Music Circus,” an annual Summer…
Day 19: Composing vs. Blogging, or How I Was Made to Make Music!
My daily compositions have been streaming out of me easily and joyfully for over fifty days. So far I have always found it easy to sit down at my computer in front…
Day 18: Pursue Your Own Personal Version of Greatness
I think it’s important to believe that you are capable of great things. I’m not talking about doing what other people think is great. I’m talking about pursuing your own personal version…
Becoming Creatively Unstoppable
I remember when I was a kid, it seems from an early age I would write down stories in a journal. I did this at school, but I also did it at…
The Importance of Being Ready
Most of my life I put incredible pressure on myself. I forced myself to step into challenging situations and grow and strive. And I learned a lot from it all, yet ultimately,…
Reaching for Satisfaction: Creativity Edition
Since starting up this blog again ten days ago–actually, for several months now–I have been thinking about what, exactly, this blog means to me. More importantly, whether I’m blogging or doing something…
The Ghost of Elvis
Every day I show up to the page and see what it has for me. I say this literally, and I say this figuratively. The “page” might be this keyboard, it might…