Tunesmith

For my writing, I'm aiming, at least until I resume my studies in September, to write around 500 words a day. It's not much, but I need to be reasonable about my time management. If I find I can write more, that's only a bonus. Gone back to Kailee. She's about to follow a bunch of villagers who've gone up a mountain after a dangerous bear-type beast, determined to deal with the bear before anyone else loses their life. But things don't always go as planned, do they? Kailee's trip up the mountain is where her story begins. Here she is again, if you'd forgotten how she looks.

I'm about ready to put up my first lyric for critique. Have found a great forum - www.tunesmith.net - and very friendly bunch of people. I hope I can grow into songwriting as I continue to grow with my writing. Btw, Heal the Pain is now titled Feel Like I'm Living Again. (Much better as I think that Bon Jovi had a hit called HTP).

I got the idea for this one from an article I read on the internet: Seven Ways to Get Over an Ex by Caitlin Ascolese - full of practical advice on how to remind yourself how very awful things were so you don't go back to him again. The song was to have a similar title, based on this article, with a hard, unforgiving edge to the lyric. But as I started writing, I found a character who had done all these things -- like writing down hurtful things that had been done and said, and sticking them on post-it notes around the house -- she basically followed all the advice, and it just wasn't making things better.

I've got another three songs I'm working on now, and at some point I'm going to have to record these and put them up at Tunesmith so I can get the songs critiqued as well as the lyrics. Once I've got a few mp3 files together, I'll probably get a myspace or soundclick account and put them up for the world to hear.

Now that's a thought to give me the collywobbles.