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flowed out of us in one, sweet sitting with no editing necessary? \u00a0More likely is the fact that we’ll have to work at it to get it done. \u00a0When you find yourself struggling to finish a song, consider these five points:<\/p>\nThe hardest part about writing a song is finishing it. \u00a0Wouldn’t it be nice if they all just flowed out of us in one, sweet sitting with no editing necessary? \u00a0More likely is the fact that we’ll have to work at it to get it done. \u00a0When you find yourself struggling to finish a song, consider these five points:<\/p>\n
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1. Discipline<\/strong> – most of us get a little lazy when we’re not really inspired. \u00a0So we just put the song aside with the thought that we’ll get back to it when inspiration hits us again. \u00a0The truth is that it’s just as likely we’re not going to be inspired about that particular song again unless we actually start WORKING on it again. \u00a0So discipline yourself to sit down with it as many times as it takes to get it finished.<\/p>\n 2. The Wall<\/strong> – you know what I’m talking about. \u00a0Everything has been moving along nicely and suddenly you can’t go any further or find yourself stuck on one part that’s not working. What can you do? \u00a0Sometimes it’s worth walking away and taking a breath, and then returning to it. \u00a0Other times you have to be persistent and keep at it until you have a breakthrough (see #1). \u00a0If it’s still not working, consider #4 and #5!<\/p>\n 3. No Time<\/strong> – sometimes creativity needs patience. \u00a0And time. \u00a0If you can give it neither, you’re going to have a heck of a time (no pun intended) finishing anything. \u00a0The only thing you can do to resolve this is to actually set aside the time. \u00a0I’ve mentioned this before, but a regular sit down time for your writing just kind of teaches your creativity to come out after awhile. \u00a0And even if it doesn’t right away, there’s always next time!<\/p>\n 4. Out Of Juice<\/strong> – if you’ve been spending the time and the patience, but nothing is coming, maybe you’re just running low on inspiration. \u00a0That’s the time to get out of your cubby hole and get some life experience. \u00a0Even if it’s just going to a coffee shop and eavesdropping on conversations or people watching, get OUT of your little space and do something different. \u00a0It doesn’t have to be expensive like a Hawaiian vacation, or scary like skydiving, it just has to be DIFFERENT.<\/p>\n 5. It’s A Turd<\/strong> – yep, you know that sometimes that song just isn’t worth the time, sweat, blood and effort to finish. \u00a0How do you know that? \u00a0Because you’ve gone through the previous four things and none of it has helped. \u00a0The song still sucks. \u00a0So start another one!<\/p>\n IJ<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The hardest part about writing a song is finishing it. \u00a0Wouldn’t it be nice if they all just flowed out of us in one, sweet sitting with no editing necessary? \u00a0More likely is the fact that we’ll have to work at it to get it done. \u00a0When you find yourself struggling to finish a song, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,196,6,5],"tags":[28,300,298,299],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-exercises","category-musings","category-opinion","category-tips","tag-creativity","tag-discipline","tag-finish-a-song","tag-uninspired"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prwoq-tu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}