FAWM +2 – My Inner Critic Goes On Enforced Vacation

Posted on February 2, 2013 by mattblick

12:40pm

Finished first FAWM song last night. Today I have doubts about it’s originality, are some of the lyrics finished/correct etc.

But FAWM is a time for totally switching off any self criticism or quality control and just losing yourself in the process.

The downside is sometimes the songs just remain there in limbo come March time and never get revisited or revised. We’ll see.

I’ve got more songs to write!

2:00pm

On bus to pick up kids from grandma’s. Going through my folder of song starts, while listening to a hilarious episode of Filmsack. Up to ‘H’ and I’ve got plenty to work on and plenty to toss in the ‘what was I thinking? file’.

About mattblick

Singer Songwriter from Nottingham, UK currently recording a mini album called Let's Build An Airport. He's blogging his way through the entire Beatles catalogue over at Beatles Songwriting Academy. In his spare time he wishes he had some spare time.
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  • Martin Quibell

    You’re making me laugh because I know how true that is. I’ve gone through old ideas before and wondered what I was thinking. I am sort of scared by the whole potential of writing songs that are, erm, rubbish in comparison to the usual, but it is in writing the aforementioned rubbish that we get to the next level in our songwriting life?