Attention! Seeking songwriters that want NEW songs, accountability and COMMUNITY, and wanna understand what all the Swiftie fuss is about!
Our May group already has some heavy hitters in it. Our April Swiftie Songwriters group has been so effective in totally unleashing my songwriting again! I even got to try out one of my new song babies at a house concert in Bowie MD on Thursday.
The fabulous Meredith Shaw said “[re: Taylor's writing] —maybe she’s a genius, maybe she’s found a formula…whatever it is, it’s full of imagery and vulnerability and it works!! This challenge has put a ton of new tools in my toolbox already. The more I write, the more I write.... thank you!”
After a decade of writing hundreds of songs, and then the last few months going by where I've been practically dry, I wondered, WHY am I far more prolific at some times than other times?
I found that it WASN'T the obvious things, like being emotionally wrought and needing to get it out or having more time to dedicate to my craft, or how skilled I was or wasn't in songcraft. (I wrote a ton of songs when I didn't know what I was doing) It wasn't even because I'd carved out creative ritual time ala The Artist's Way (though it's a good idea). I discovered TWO HOT SPOTS. Kinda like the Blue Zones. Two containers from my past that produced 30 SONGS in no time vs the wah-wah two I'd written before designing this Mastermind.
My first HOT SPOT of writing tons of songs came when I dedicated myself to a Monthly Songwriter Study.
Each month I devoured an artist's material, picked it apart and learned about the artist, learned a few of his or her tunes, included the SiaD community in the artist-choosing process, and then modeled a new song after them. Now I have songs in the style of Sara B, Taylor Swift, John Prine, Alanis Morrissette, Carole King, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, etc. (Amazingly, they all still sound like me) I didn't finish the year-long commitment cause though it was helpful, there were no stakes or accountability and life got life-y.
The second HOT SPOT was when the wonderful Cary Cooper invited me to be a part of her RealWomenRealSongs container.
Me and 20 other women wrote and filmed a song a week to her prompts. I met amazing women like Sara Hickman and Kate Klim, & we all wrote songs we perform out to this day. I made it half the way through the year then dropped off on account of Tour de Dress, plus most of the rest of the group had lost steam too.
I'm combining these two concepts into the container I wish I had-
-a community of elite songwriters dedicated to growing in their craft, through the lens of a deep investigation of the most prolific writer I love TAYTAY SWIFT BABYYYY
-a SHORTER time commitment (You'll still get value from 5 min/day engaging with the group)
-STAKES, so you actually show up for yourself (I've signed up for so many free challenges that I fell off of, I now know it's pointless, so let's invest some $ into our creative dreams, plus I'm putting a lot of time into designing this to be high-value for everybody)
-easier goals to hit than churning out full songs, which makes it hard to feel successful
So May 1st is the next cohort of our 30-Day Challenge of Swift Songwriting Secrets!
A songwriter community FB group with a Swiftie song analysis, group discussion questions, prompt inspired by the song, and space to share a verse and chorus that you write and get feedback.
At the end of the month, you'll be back in your songwriting goove, broken out of your writing ruts (Taylor is the queen of unique song forms), 30 new friends to be inspired by creatively, and a strong, hooky writing muscle!!
Want to join the fun and be in our elite Swift songwriting team? Are you a Swiftie who gets it or do you totally not get why she's amazing?