My dearest tortured composer

When I was first getting going, finishing a piece took months. Months and months.

I'd tweak. I'd edit. I'd tweak some more.

And it never felt good enough.

Then I found a strange method from a guy named Mike Monday. He calls it splurging.

Doing it basically unleashed my creativity. Everything got way easier.

So if you've been feeling stuck, this one's for you.

Here are Mike's four rules of splurging:

The top one is the most important. You literally don't think about quality at all. You just start moving as quickly as possible.

That's it.

I did a challenge where I did 600 splurges in three months.

Yes, 600.

I'd highly recommend picking a challenge like that and just doing it.

Here's what happens. You find out you don't have to think so hard when you compose. You just let the music come out.

Some of it will be bad. That's fine. That's the deal.

But then something happens. You listen back to something you made, or look at it again, and you realize there's something genius in there.

When that moment hits, your whole creative process changes. For good. You don't go back to who you were before.

We might be running some challenges like this in the Freedom to Compose community soon.

Would that be something you'd want in on? Hit reply and tell me.

and remember the world waits for your music

Luke