Two-ish years ago I re-started my Bardic Project blog – this thing you’re reading right now. And then I put it down and left it for a while. And here I am again with another reboot. It’s not that I don’t have anything to share with you. I do. It’s that my brain is filled with too many things, and I started writing and then had to do other things, and then….

And then. There’s always another ‘and then’. It takes discipline to write a blog, and I admit to playing hooky. I will ask your pardon, though, because a lot of the hooky was to write songs. But still, I want to apologize, because I really want to share being a bard / singer-songwriter with you.

So let’s talk about discipline. Discipline is what I have enough of to keep writing songs, but apparently what I thus far have lacked enough of when it comes to blog writing.

You’ll probably see and hear this over and over again, but there are a few keys to writing. The first one is to write. Don’t worry about it being “good”, and don’t even worry too much about it being part of your main project. Just writing every day helps. Write on paper, write in your head, or even record it spoken if you need to. Just make sure to create. Make time for that every day. That’s the discipline.

Writing every day helps keep out the mental cobwebs. It helps order your thoughts and generate ideas. It can help you come up with new ideas.

And really, don’t worry about whether what you write is good or not. Speaking from experience, most of what you write is going to be crap. You’ll take it out in a few months and stare at it like it’s some alien fungus that oozed out of your mind. Don’t worry about that. It’s normal. But still, don’t burn it or throw it out. You might find a good idea or a useful idea hidden in there.

So write. Write with abandon. Write with emotion. You can do it!

Hopefully so can I.