If you happened across this page you are very welcome. If you were pointed in the direction of this page by some other media link or friend recommendation, you are also most welcome and I hope you find something useful in what I’m sharing.
The aim of this website/blog is to share my daily lyrical ideas to the digital world. I’m hoping that in doing this, it will help me to develop and improve my own lyric writing and to possibly help someone else to write lyrics or possible lyrics for some imaginary songs. Maybe, those lyrics and imaginary songs might become real musical entities in the future. So, it’s a little bit of me dreaming and a glimpse into my early un-edited lyric writing attempts and the creative process around these efforts. As I’ve never written a blog or shared my ideas, I’m not sure how things will go or what I might write about each day or week.
I’m the Blynds. Well at least this is the name I’ve chosen for my musical identity! I’ve been hiding behind the blinds all my life, ‘Watching the wheels go round and round’, as one of my favourite artists, John Lennon, sang! It’s now time for me to venture forward out into the big, bold, beautiful world and have no fear about sharing my creative music making process. This blog page is the first step in doing that and the first step is the hardest.
I’m looking at this with an open mind and heart, and thinking it will be a good fun thing to do once I get into the swing of it. I’m also going to share links to any songs or tracks I have and any new music I will be releasing in the future. I’m currently working on about ten song/track ideas in various stages of production and readiness for completion and release.
The lyrics I’m sharing and this current process, came about through a ‘free writing session’, where you write as fast as you can without thinking or without editing what you are writing about, in order to try and gain some sort of creative insight. I’ve used this approach a good few times now with varying success, which is to be expected. I came across this idea and approach in a class I’m doing on the creative process as it applies to music and music production called the Leap, which I’d highly recommend to anyone with an open mind. So, big shout out to Mike Monday and all the team at Make Music Your Life!
The process is about testing to see if I can write lyrics very quickly, each night, just before bed. I’m spending around ten minutes maximum doing this. I write as quickly as possible without editing the words or thinking about where the words came from, or why they popped into my thoughts. Just get them down on paper first and then close my notebook without re-reading them. I won’t re-read them for at least 7 days. This is purposeful as it allows me to look at the lyrics freshly and maybe develop them further or find a connection with the music and songs I’m also writing.
Drop me an email and let me know what you think about this or if there’s anything I can help you with? I’ll do my best to get back to you soon!