Of all people, I definitely know what it feels like to have to scrap a song. Maybe because it's not good enough for you, the rhymes aren't complete or something entirely different.
With a wastebasket full of thrown away balled up pieces of a paper, I was thinking last night about all the songs in the past that I have thrown away. If you're a song writer, I think we all have those moments of looking at our past creations and not remembering when you wrote that catchy phrase and you think to yourself:
"Did someone steal my handwriting?"
Unless you live in some fishy apartment, the odds are that someone forged your handwriting when you weren't looking, is probably pretty slim.
Keeping A Journal:
I feel like keeping a journal is an important part to writing songs in general, or having a binder of folder, so you can keep all of your works in one area. It's never fun having to look under the bed or behind the dresser for your lose sheet of paper... (Trust me, I would know.)
When thinking about trashing a song, if you have a journal, you can write your favorite lines, and chord progressions on a designated piece of paper, that way when you are looking for a good phrase to say, you can look back on that list and then check it off when you use it.
Make A Poem
If you do at all poem writing, you know that song writing and poem writing aren't all too different from each other. Sometimes your poems have a rougher feels than your songs might have, or totally the other way. If you have a poetry website, I doubt your readers are going to go through EVERYTHING you posted and be like, "That ain't no poem, that's a song."
But you know what: Fake it until you make it... Do what you gotta do!
Design A Card
I think that this project could be special! One of these days I'm going to make a post on card making. Especially if you are writing that song about someone you love, there could be some very special things that you could have written in that song that would be SO heart touching in a very special way!
So, now that you have some ideas up your sleeves, it's important to remember, no-matter how bad your song sounds, it can always be something special on paper.
Happy card, poem, and journal making!
~Lily
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