So I have been composing daily since the beginning of June. That’s almost seven months of daily composing. I have written a ton of new music, gotten a lot of experience using…
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Day 144: My 4-Million View Video
So my Charlie Chaplin video has reached 4 million views. The magical fireworks were from May through July, where I got tens of thousands of views on an average day, and as…
Day 132: A Perfect Match
Is I type this, I am listening to a playlist on Apple Music of my compositions. I create my compositions on a computer program called Logic. Since the beginning of June, I…
Day 123: Five Months of Daily Composing
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…
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…