Biglad,

Absolutely. As grueling as it is though, I try and write every day and save everything and every idea and snippet neatly filed away, not expecting anything is going to happen on first try.

It is all different.

Sometimes I will find a cool riff on the piano and it takes a week to turn into a song, sometimes a month.

Sometimes a lyric will sit around for a month waiting for a chord progression, sometimes it is the other way around.

Sometimes I grab an acoustic and it all comes at once, but that is rare.

The point is I try and write every day and file everything. Most songs get finished at midnight when I pop out of bed and say "got it" and go switch the lights back on in the studio.

As an FYI, the last song I posted Fall Apart came together after sitting on the shelf for 12 years. The chorus had eluded me for 12 years--and I woke up in the middle of the night, and said "I got it." Loaded up Band in a Box and had it posted three hours later.

Yes, it is a weird business.

smile

David Snyder
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