I write each post the same day I send it out. Well, almost always. Every once and a while I’ll have something pre-written.
I keep a list of ideas in the Notes app on my phone. When I use an idea from that list, I delete it off the list.
In time, instead of having list of only ideas I’d like to have a list of fully written posts. I’d like to write the entire post as soon as I have the initial idea, because that tends to be a very clear, inspired moment for me.
But for now…at night when I sit down to write the days’ post, the first source of inspiration is what my brain thinks of at that moment. What do I want to say tonight? What would I want to talk about if an artist or music biz person were sitting here in my office with me? What did I notice earlier today?
If there’s something there, that’s the idea I write. If I come up empty, that’s when I revisit the ideas on the list.
At this point the list is very long.
The list is long because I notice lots of things. I notice lots of things because I write everyday. I write everyday because there’s lots of things to notice and write about.
So I scan the list until I find an idea I can reconnect with and enter in to.
Then I write it. If I get stuck during the writing, I start talking about the idea out loud and that usually works out the kinks. Or I imagine if someone were in the room with me, how would I explain this?
When finished I send it out to the email subscribers first, then post it on Facebook and Twitter.
I appreciate everyone who reads the blog but the people who subscribe and get the blog posts sent to their email also tend to be the ones who respond to the posts. And I love that…carrying on the conversation.
I think getting an email is more special than reading on Facebook or the website. It feels more intentional and committal.
I write the blog because it keeps me participating in the industry in which I participate. Writing something everyday for my world to love or criticize has created it’s own magnetic (and un-magnetic) field.
It’s important to me to contribute to the idea that whether you’re in the music business for two weeks or twenty years, it can be worth your time.
Thank you for reading. Lets keep going.
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