Diving In...

It's a little past noon on Apr 30th. 

Tomorrow I'm starting Song a Day in May Journey.   I'm a bit nervous at this point.   You could catch me in a cavelier moment where I know I can write the songs but there's a lot of worry there too.  What if none of the songs are good?   What if I used up all my ideas in February?   Hell, what if I used up all my ideas sometime last fall?   Then again, that's why I do this thing in the first place, to see what happens.   So to borrow a cliche, it's time to dive in.  

For me diving in is about commitment.  In this case I'm committing to writing 31 songs over the course of the next 31 days.   I'm also commiting to letting go of the outcome aside from writing those 31 songs.  Will they be good?  Doesn't matter.  Will they be bad?  Doesn't matter.   I'm writing 31 songs and that's that. 

There's a lot I can talk about in the creative process but these are the most important tools I have in the end.   Committing to doing it, and letting go of the outcome.  This doesn't mean that I don't judge the result at some point.   It just means I create a safe place for the music to come into the world in the first place, the same way a mother bird creates a nest for her eggs to hatch in.