July 17, 2023

Greetings from Denver, Pennsylvania.

Thank you so very much for visiting my website and checking out the release of my workbook “Creating Connections: Interweaving Poem-making and Songwriting, which includes the release of eleven songs that you can easily access by capturing the QR code for each song.

Please join me in a thirty-day writing challenge that will focus on capturing in nouns and verbs what you are noticing about yourself and the world around each day.  Here is the process:

1. Choose a writing time and place;
2. Write for fifteen minutes;
3. After you stop writing, read what you have written and then highlight words, phrases, thoughts, ideas and images that stand out.
4. Using the language of Mark Simos, collect your “song seeds,” plant them and watch them grow.

For later in the day or night:

1. Begin writing lines of lyric, and read these lines out loud to capture the natural rhythm and melody in the line.
2. Have fun and set yourself free in following the creative flow.
3. Hum the melody to yourself.
4. Then vary the motif of the melody ever so slightly.
5. Consider using a refrain of the central idea of the song as the foundation of your chorus.

Make time to post what you are noticing about your creative process.

Blessings,

Michael Carr, LPC, CJT