Give yourself time after finishing a draft

I’m not good at this so this post is partially me reminding myself to do this.

But after you finish a draft of a song or piece of music try to give yourself a few days or even a week away from that piece of music. Give yourself some time to work on something else and not focus on that piece.

You’ll come back fresh and with a slightly different perspective. I also think it helps you forget some of the things that get in your head when writing. You might hyper focus on something while writing that you end up not noticing or forgetting about.

This means, to me, that it wasn’t as big of a deal as you originally thought. So when you forget about it and don’t notice it, it could’ve been that you were listening to that one piece of music so many times that you noticed every tiny little thing and made each one of those things into a big deal.

Try it with your music. The times I’ve tried it I always come back to the music much more fresh and ready to write and with new ideas and a slightly different perspective.

ISJ