writers block

Writers block...it's something I've become good friends with. He sometimes visits me, often times most inconveniently. It is increasingly frustrating. I guess part of the problem is my lack of experience with lyrical writing. It's just so difficult for me to get the thoughts and feelings I wish to express out in a way that would make sense in a song. I think I need to take a lyrical writing class. Or I just need to write more. I think that's it. I used to write songs all the time, about anything that came to mind. I once wrote a song with Kara about a cigarette butt we found at the park. It was a great song. You wouldn't have known it was about a cigarette butt. Thats the beautiful part.

Anyway, this weekend I watched Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and began writing about it in very loose terms. Mostly it's focusing on a good relationship that ends poorly and how you may want to forget it, but some things were just so fun. So should you? I don't know. But I wrote a couple lines, but past that I can't get my thoughts together in a fashion that makes sense in a musical sense. But writer's block isn't always as intense as my inability to get thoughts together. Kara is in town all week and today we finally got the chance to write some music together again. She had started a song recently and I was just really digging it, so we continued it, writing out the second verse, and got to the last line and completely died. We can't figure out for the life of us how to end it. To add to the frustration, all we have to do is write that line and maybe a bridge, and then we can record it this week. STRESS!! We decided to go on a walk instead of sit in my room and stress over it.

So oh well I suppose. The words will come to us. To me. Just keep writing and it will work out.