Comments on: Creating Your Habit of Songwriting https://tonyconniff.com/creating-your-habit-of-songwriting/ Songwriter, Producer, and Coach, based in New York City. Mon, 16 Jan 2017 05:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tony Conniff https://tonyconniff.com/creating-your-habit-of-songwriting/#comment-7179 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 05:05:23 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=3126#comment-7179 In reply to Sophia.

Sophia,
Great to hear from you. Thanks for the kind words.
You’re still part of the NYC songwriting community, if only (for the moment) in spirit.
Hope to see you soon… and that you’re enjoying Bangkok (I hope to get there someday). Keep writing!
Best wishes,
Tony

]]> By: Sophia https://tonyconniff.com/creating-your-habit-of-songwriting/#comment-7178 Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:35:28 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=3126#comment-7178 I really needed this post to think of ways to get back on the saddle. Your 5-week workshops with deadlines, prompts and concrete varied feedback of a songwriting community worked well for me and also generated a productive stretch in the aftermath. I’m in Bangkok now and struggle to maintain that habit of creativity in the absence of a like-minded community.
Reading your posts helps and reminds me the song-writing community exists even if I can’t quite access it right now.
As always, thanks for writing these supportive and insightful posts.

]]> By: Tony Conniff https://tonyconniff.com/creating-your-habit-of-songwriting/#comment-7177 Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:16:09 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=3126#comment-7177 In reply to Wayne Somerville.

Thanks, Wayne. Deadlines have always been and will for most people always be the most dependable spur to creativity – and finishing!
Best wishes,
Tony

]]> By: Wayne Somerville https://tonyconniff.com/creating-your-habit-of-songwriting/#comment-7176 Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:53:07 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=3126#comment-7176 I couldn’t agree more. I try to write everyday. But for me it’s a deadline that really gets the best results. I actually try to create that pressure by agreeing to write with someone or talking up a song I’m working on so that my musician friends might demand to hear it. In a way it sounds silly but for me when I have to come through I usually do. Of course I don’t want to write songs that sound forced or have no magic in them. I have to have that small spark of an idea, like a cool melodic line with a great progression. Maybe a really good first verse. There has to be some magic. It’s finishing it up that I usually need some outside force to compel me to finish.

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