Don’t Worry, Be Crappy
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
I think far too many of us get caught up NOT finishing the song we’ve started to write because we’re already worried of it sounding bad. I think it’s only natural for us to start writing a song and then NOT finishing it because apparently, it sounds like crap.
BIG mistake. You and I know that the majority of the best stuff out there didn’t come from a ‘one shot’. It takes time. It takes some editing. It takes some tweaking. It usually doesn’t happen overnight.
Whatever your problem is, whether it’s the melody, the lyrics or the chords, you should try you very best to at least finish the song off. Why create 10 half songs when you can have 5 which are finished?
OK, so I hear you say "what if they sound like crap?", to which I say "so what!" 
At least you can enhance what you already have. What are you going to do with 10 half songs? Try to finish them all - and then think they’re crap …so you start writing yet another one? Do you see where I’m coming from?
Don’t worry, be crappy. There is nobody beside you with a knife who will crucify you for a crappy song. All you need to do is work on THAT song, and not start another one. 
If you own my course Songwriting Secrets Interview you should know that we hit the point home about this. Striving for something perfect, leaving it unfinished and then ‘moving on’ to create another song is a dangerous move and will NOT help you improve your craft.
In the course we also share some in-depth strategies on how to improve writing melodies and getting lyrical ideas without a ‘writers’ block’.
Hopefully, you will go away after reading this post and try to find those half-finished great ideas and complete these gems
Shamir
