{"id":897,"date":"2013-09-26T22:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T05:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2013-10-19T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T00:58:24","slug":"engage-with-songs-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/engage-with-songs-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Engage With Songs &#038; Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staring at an empty sheet waiting for ideas to come is just about the worst thing you can do in #writing #songs. Engage with other modes of music or literature, and the ideas are almost guaranteed to flow. Do this consistently, and the pages will write themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Every musician you speak with will have a different opinion on how to invoke a <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/21\/songwriting-on-demand\/?_r=0\">songwriting on demand<\/a> style of mentality in yourself. But if you make a conscientious effort, you&#8217;ll be much more likely to summon the proverbial muse when you need it most.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Engage-with-music-and-literature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-898\" alt=\"engage with music &amp; writing\" src=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Engage-with-music-and-literature.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Engage-with-music-and-literature.jpg 500w, https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Engage-with-music-and-literature-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/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":[31,1],"tags":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips","category-uncategorized","tag-how-to-write-songs","tag-songwriting-tips-2","tag-ways-to-compose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-et","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}