The Joy of Songwriting 2020: Prologue

May 3, 2020

Greetings. It's been a LONG time since I made a "Joy of Songwriting" blog entry.

If you read the last one, it comes as no surprise. My "strategic plan" took me away from planning and promotion and for a few years I dedicated myself to "woodshedding" on my instruments. There was no way of getting around it.

Beside the fact that my son was in high school and transitioning into college/career training... that was a rollercoaster deserving of it's own blog!  As well, my teaching job -- which I had been doing just fine for 15 years -- in the past five years they have gone BALLISTIC on micromanaging us. Also another blog!

But I digress! It's all good.

I'm HERE now... because... suddenly the desire to write songs bloomed again. It was like, a fog just cleared and there they were, fully formed for the taking.

I'll go into that all in a sec... but just a crucial note... right now... as I write on May 3, 2020, we have been in the midst of a global pandemic due to the highly contageous Coronavirus Covid-19. Friday March 13 was the last day of "in school" instruction with students. We were all sent home to teach through "distance learning" (with zero training), and we muddle through that.  So... even though I'm HOME...(for 6 weeks now!)  I still have to put in full days working on school stuff, creating instructional materials, video-conferencing, learning how it all works. I'm somewhat fortunate as I gained experience with website management and YouTube etc over the years because of my music.

The songwriting I'm going to talk about actually started in December... before the virus. The songs were completed in early March...before the virus. ... .but the Virus has changed everything.... so... just putting that out here for context.

Coronavirus topic would be yet another blog!

That's THREE that i've come up with all just in this introduction. Re-introduction?

Anyhow... I will call this entry "prologue" and then continue on.