Staying On The Bus

I was listening to another Homesongs performer, Donna Canale, play online last night on Rowland Jones “Talking Songs”. She used the phrase “staying on the bus” in regard to trying to find a following for her songs, simply by keeping on keeping on.

We don’t like to think of our creative endeavours as a competition. We are Artistes! We spend our time waiting, working and listening…for Inspiration. And then we Give Birth to that inspiration.

Well, yes, maybe something like that happens.

But…and this isn’t a given of course…if we want our “inspiration” to find an audience to inspire, then we inevitably find ourselves in competition with other Inspired Folk, who are also targeting that audience.

Yep, it turns out there are many (Many!) other inspired and talented creators out there, all hawking the crowd. All trying to grab the attention of a limited number of listeners . And some of them will be reaching out to our particular audience. And they might even be better than us. God forbid!

If life as a Creator was, to some degree, a competition, then the name for that competition could well be: “Staying On The Bus”.

We need to work and get better at our creative endeavours, obviously.

After that?

Well then we damn well don’t give up.