I’m not always a big fan of my daily song. It’s not always immediately clear when I’m writing a song — especially if I have to do it without any voice or guitar, which are starting to feel like additional appendages (that is to say, an extension of me) — that it’s going in the right direction. And I’m working with such limited time that once it does become clear that the song isn’t going where I’d like, I usually don’t have time to change course. I just have to finish the song and post it. It’s a weird sort of pressure, and the only part of it that really bugs me is having, on occasion, to post songs that I would rather not post. Or, that I would rather not have written.
I suppose there’s something constructive in producing — and being forced to share — songs that aren’t exciting. Perhaps it’s a learning experience, perhaps extra impetus to write a good one tomorrow…
