{"id":3071,"date":"2019-06-07T13:20:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:21:06","slug":"its-not-inside-you-trying-to-get-out-its-outside-you-trying-to-get-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/its-not-inside-you-trying-to-get-out-its-outside-you-trying-to-get-in\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not inside you trying to get out, it\u2019s outside you trying to get in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an excerpt of a great blog from Austin Kleon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I  <\/span>never feel like I have a book <\/span>in<\/em> <\/span>me. I always feel like there\u2019s a book <\/span>around<\/em>me. It\u2019s like I\u2019m a planet and there\u2019s all this space junk orbiting me, and all the junk starts smashing together and forming book chapters. My job is to grab that stuff around me and shape it into something.<\/p>\n

Today in <\/span>The Red Hand Files<\/a><\/em>, Nick Cave had this advice for a \u201cblocked\u201d songwriter:<\/p>\n

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My advice to you is to change your basic relationship to songwriting. You are not the \u2018Great Creator\u2019 of your songs, you are simply their servant, and the songs will come to you when you have adequately prepared yourself to receive them. <\/span>They are not inside you, unable to get out; rather, they are outside of you, unable to get in.<\/strong> <\/span>Songs, in my experience, are attracted to an open, playful and motivated mind. Throw my song away \u2013 it isn\u2019t that good anyway \u2013 sit down, prepare yourself and write your own damn song. You are a songwriter. You have the entire world to save and very little time to do it. The song will find its way to you. If you don\u2019t write it, someone else will. Is that what you want? If not, get to it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest<\/p>\n

https:\/\/austinkleon.com\/2019\/06\/06\/its-not-inside-you-trying-to-get-out-its-outside-you-trying-to-get-in\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an excerpt of a great blog from Austin Kleon. I  never feel like I have a book in me. I always feel like there\u2019s a book aroundme. It\u2019s like I\u2019m a planet and there\u2019s all this space junk orbiting me, and all the junk starts smashing together and forming book chapters. My job is to grab that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-musicians","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}