{"id":1464,"date":"2014-10-02T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T20:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2022-06-03T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:32:51","slug":"todays-songwriting-tip-that-dreaded-writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/todays-songwriting-tip-that-dreaded-writers-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s #Songwriting Tip | That Dreaded Writers Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staring at an empty sheet waiting for ideas to come is just about the worst thing you can do when #writing #songs.<\/p>\n<p>Engage with other modes of music or literature and the ideas are almost guaranteed to flow. Do this consistently, and the pages may write themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Other ways to re-energize those creative juices include: taking a walk or drive, checking in on that journal you should be keeping, doing something totally different (visit a new place, talk to someone you haven&#8217;t for a while), or just picking a random new title and seeing where it takes you.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Jack London, \u201cYou can\u2019t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8211; Register your songs here: http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/<a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/388101_553530524669552_61534038_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/388101_553530524669552_61534038_n.jpg\" alt=\"388101_553530524669552_61534038_n\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/388101_553530524669552_61534038_n.jpg 612w, https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/388101_553530524669552_61534038_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/388101_553530524669552_61534038_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staring at an empty sheet waiting for ideas to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-nC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}