I was chatting with a friend online yesterday, and she brought up how she was having trouble coming up with song lyrics. I decided, hey, I'm a writer, why not. Poetry is basically a song without a tune.
And during the process, I realized how much I enjoyed songwriting as well. I began singing (quite terribly) what I thought it would sound like, and damn, I feel like there's something there. It makes me want to take up piano again even though I abandoned it more than twelve years ago. I'm "done" with the song for my friend (ended up being verses without a chorus). I'm now in the process of writing a song for my sister.
Ahhh...my musician fri