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Homework

Another confession.

I sometimes write a song to avoid doing something else. It’s a great excuse. It’s something creative. It’s the thing I’m good at, if I’m good at anything. There is a definite end product. How could time, for a songwriter, ever be wasted by writing a song?

But of course there are other things, which I find more difficult, and which take me out of my comfort zone. And need to be done. The biggest task I avoid is managing the mountain of creations that have been and gone.

Today I was tempted to write a song, I still am, in order to avoid archiving this very Homesong Blog that you are reading right now.

In my mind it feels like Homework more than Homesong work. But when I did the same task before, I quite enjoyed reading back and categorising my own work. So I"m going to embrace it. And that song will have to wait.

I’m sure I must be the only person who has this issue!?