Week 1: Beginning the Creative Process
- wuolletn
- 2016年2月16日
- 読了時間: 2分

I'm only one week into the project, and I've already managed to learn quite a bit about the creative process of songwriting, and how good ideas come about! I have heard that the best way to truly understand and learn something is to teach it to another, and this week, I discovered that to be very true. I was able to teach and share my own ideas and philosophies about songwriting to Mrs. Nagami's creative writing class, which really helped me to investigate and develop a better understanding of my own creative process.
Afterwards, I returned to square one of the songwriting process: Developing ideas. In my opinion, there's no better place to write a song than at a piano, and in fact many of the ideas I'm most proud of came from me sitting alone at a piano, putting the sound of soft piano keys to my emotions and feelings. In my songwriting/brainstorming setup for the first week of this project, I returned to that essential atmosphere. I sat at my digital piano, and used the magic of pen and paper (in addition to a handy lyricist's book) to write down all the thoughts and emotions that had been running through my head since the last time I had sat down to write a song. I found that there were many conflicts within me, both resolved and unresolved, that would lend themselves well to music, and so I poured them onto the paper.
The next step of the process will be to shape these ideas, and choose the best of each of them to form a coherent piece of art, but in order to do that, I first needed to write it all down, so I won't have to rely on my memory alone in the next steps of the process. This week I have learned a lot about what it is to write, and how a writer thinks, but I have also managed to discover my own process and how that process can improve ever so slightly with every piece I write.
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