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Another song.
Jan. 28th, 2012 11:32 amAnd I haven't forgotten that I owe you the song about the candy-bar; it is coming, honest.
But I was planning on mixing on Friday. Which I really need to do because I have way more stuff recorded than I have actually, you know, mixed, and mixing is an important step where you find you need to re-record things, and anyway. I have more songs already than I can fit on a CD, and at the end of the year I laid down a "you must be at least this old to go on this CD; new songs will have to wait for the next one" rule. And I already have two songs I wrote in January.
And instead of mixing I sat down and wrote another one. The lyrics, anyway; I still need to work on the tune.
I felt like I was kind of on a roll, you see, and I didn't want to stop in the middle because maybe I wouldn't be able to pick it back up again, and I kind of felt like I owed the library a song.
But this kind of embodies my issue with the album; I mix too slowly. I'm pretty sure I could keep up with it just recording, but I don't mix fast enough. And a big part of the reason I don't mix fast enough is that I keep doing other things when I should be mixing.
Is it a general thing that it's easier and more fun to do the starting creative work than the finishing creative work? How do you persuade yourself to do the finishing creative work?
But I was planning on mixing on Friday. Which I really need to do because I have way more stuff recorded than I have actually, you know, mixed, and mixing is an important step where you find you need to re-record things, and anyway. I have more songs already than I can fit on a CD, and at the end of the year I laid down a "you must be at least this old to go on this CD; new songs will have to wait for the next one" rule. And I already have two songs I wrote in January.
And instead of mixing I sat down and wrote another one. The lyrics, anyway; I still need to work on the tune.
I felt like I was kind of on a roll, you see, and I didn't want to stop in the middle because maybe I wouldn't be able to pick it back up again, and I kind of felt like I owed the library a song.
But this kind of embodies my issue with the album; I mix too slowly. I'm pretty sure I could keep up with it just recording, but I don't mix fast enough. And a big part of the reason I don't mix fast enough is that I keep doing other things when I should be mixing.
Is it a general thing that it's easier and more fun to do the starting creative work than the finishing creative work? How do you persuade yourself to do the finishing creative work?
