Dream Out Loud!

[jabw10]

1. this is an awesome thread
2. it needs to be stickied like the other threads at the top
3. can I join?

1. thank you
2. don't know how to do that
3. OF COURSE YOU CAN!! 

[MarsGirl~Descends to Hell for a bottle of milk]

I havent touched my rock star story in a month, thanks to starting to date this new guy. However, he's going out of town this weekend on a mountain biking trip... so maybe I will catch up?

[jabw10]

I havent touched my rock star story in a month, thanks to starting to date this new guy. However, he's going out of town this weekend on a mountain biking trip... so maybe I will catch up?

yeah, well, just call it more 'research'   definitely catch up while he's gone, though - don't wanna lose touch with the characters altogether, right? 

i'm no further than i was before on the new song - just have a chorus, chord progression and some vague ideas for a verse.  last year, i recorded a christmas cd for relatives & friends, though - had carols on it plus one or two originals.  got a great response and they said i should do a cd every year (complete w songs from the lil j's )  i'm hoping that pressure to record another installment of the 'christmas cd' will help me focus on also recording one or two new originals... wish me luck with that...

[MarsGirl~Descends to Hell for a bottle of milk]

Oh, PLEASE put me on your Christmas card list if you do this.

Oh, hell, put me on your Christmas card list anyway.

[EnduringChill]

My reasons for posting here:
I am an amateur author and singer. Someday I want to do one or the other- or both- as my occupation, but I keep worrying about not making enough money. Plus, so far it only seems like I can do covers (I can't write a song for anything ) and my voice doesn't seem strong enough. I've never liked my voice that much either, but I do have a YouTube channel where I put up covers of songs that I like. Moving on to the writing, I have written a few long short stories in the past, but looking back on them I realized they're not as good as I am now. But right now I'm wasting my talent on writing fanfiction, which I really enjoy but I can't show it to the outside world (well, I post on Interference, but I want a wider audience) and I can't pass it off as real writing anyway. Sometimes I get annoyed at how good some of my peers' writing is compared to mine. Next to both of my sisters' writing, for instance, mine is the shabbiest of the bunch. So, I'm just an ambitious girl

[EnduringChill]

...needing inspiration. (my post got cut off)

[excavation]

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

Practice, practice, practice....

I know it's hard to do, but if you find a little time every day it helps.  And if you look back and see that you have improved, well that's a good sign!

(psst... fanfic counts as practice  )

[MarsGirl~Descends to Hell for a bottle of milk]

EC, you're young. Dont worry about making money... you'll figure it out. I wish I'd pursued my writing when I was young and had no responsibilities... (ie, right when I was out of college with my brand-spanking-new English degree). It's very easy after college to live on very little.... It's a lot harder later in life. Had I just ignored everything people told me and followed my dreams when I was young, I might be a published writer now... and much, much happier with my career...

[jabw10]

MG's right, EC - don't worry, just write what you love! 

case in point - i recently uncovered a bunch of lyrics & songs ranging from when i was in 7th grade through my college years.  i had always discounted the worth of those early songs, but i played a few of them again yesterday and there is actually some really good stuff in there!  stuff i thought was trivial when i was younger, but now they resonate with my adult self. 

i think that sometimes, especially during teen years, we're too close to our work to really be able to value it...
i also agree w excavation about practice.  keep writing! 

[MarsGirl~Descends to Hell for a bottle of milk]

I agree, Jab. I have everything I've ever written in binders at my house. I've gone through some of my high school stuff--even my fiction stories--and surprised myself with how good they were... I can see in me what my teachers kept telling me. Sometimes it depresses me because I feel like I wasted a lot of potential... The plots of these stories werent perfect (perhaps could have used some research) but the stories themselves sounded good and the writing was really above the level of what I would as an adult expect from a teenager. Sometimes I even think my lack of fear of being good caused me to write better than I write now....

[excavation]

I agree, Jab. I have everything I've ever written in binders at my house. I've gone through some of my high school stuff--even my fiction stories--and surprised myself with how good they were... I can see in me what my teachers kept telling me. Sometimes it depresses me because I feel like I wasted a lot of potential... The plots of these stories werent perfect (perhaps could have used some research) but the stories themselves sounded good and the writing was really above the level of what I would as an adult expect from a teenager. Sometimes I even think my lack of fear of being good caused me to write better than I write now....

Fear of being good and fear of failure seem to go hand in hand, don't they?  It took me a long time to overcome my fear of failure.  I always felt like every painting had to be perfect and got so discouraged when it wasn't.  When I finally got it into my head that if something isn't working, I should just admit it and move on, it was very liberating.  Now I'm dealing with the fear of being good part.   

[jabw10]

agree, excavation - fear of success can be just as (if not more) paralyzing sometimes... brings on a whole new set of questions, doesn't it? ((HUG))

[excavation]

agree, excavation - fear of success can be just as (if not more) paralyzing sometimes... brings on a whole new set of questions, doesn't it? ((HUG))

It does indeed! 

I love that this thread has become the "creative peoples support thread"  LOL.

[MarsGirl~Descends to Hell for a bottle of milk]

agree, excavation - fear of success can be just as (if not more) paralyzing sometimes... brings on a whole new set of questions, doesn't it? ((HUG))

It does indeed! 

I love that this thread has become the "creative peoples support thread"  LOL.

I think that was its intended purpose.

[jabw10]

so, i think the website is where i want it to be - and i think that the song clips i put on there are decent (although they're still just demos - mostly with me and a goofy electronic rhythm section   ) 

 it's supposed to advertise for voice lessons, for me to perform vocally, and hopefully to help me find real people to play stuff like bass & drums
of course, now all the voices in my head are saying things like:  'what if people call you to sing somewhere?  are you ready for that?  what if you aren't available when they need you?  what if some psycho stalks your site? what if *fill in ridiculous worry here*... what if... what if....'

good grief!  i've been working fulltime for a million years, unhappy that i never gave myself a chance... now i have the time and the opportunity, and i'm paralyzing myself with useless fear & worry...   bono would be disgusted with me! 

i'd feel a lot better if i had a marketable CD ready for sale or something... but need to find those musicians, first