Songwriting...It's Like Surfing

[paul05]

You carefully wax your board and prepare yourself mentally. As you venture out, it's just you and the water. You pace your strokes between breaths as you topple over minor waves leading out past the reef. As you get to the reef, you sit up on yer board and dangle your feet off the sides in the salty ocean. You examine the direction of the wind as you turn your head in the proper direction, so as to keep your hair from smacking your eyelids. This is that moment where you find whether or not it's gonna happen. You hope for a rushing wave to come; but even it it doesnt, you are filled with a blatent willingness to keep swimming back out again and again. You turn around and stare out at the shore. (which seems as alien to you as the horizon did on the way out). You realize how far you've swam and feel like a bobber on the end of a fishing line. "What now?", you say. Suddenly a giant surge of current comes out of nowhere and pushes you from behind. Like a grasshopper caught by the wind, you don't even think about how to stand-up you just do it.
After a few seconds you realize it. Yer' Doin It!!! You feel your feet get a little wobbly; but you hold steady relishing the moment. You're glad that you swam out as far as you did, so as to give yourself plenty of distance to accomplish a killer hang. You glide into shore like a pelican sailing over the smooth uncut waves to scope his prey. But it's not enough for you. Yer gonna go again and again and again...until you REALLY hang ten!!!

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[Greg]

I like that, but I've never tried surfing!

If we can make a different similarity (hoo-ya for the oxymoron ) between songwriting and sitting at the computer for an extended period of time, I think I'll be ok!

Honestly though, that's nice creative writing.

[BluesBro]

I haven't seen the movie, I'll probably wait for the video of Click. Point being when you are cruisin on that wave and you wipe out, you can go back and try again. Or if you are playing your music and the audience are loving it, you can replay that moment over again.

Nice writing m8:)

[christineanderson]

Riding The Wave

What a beautiful passage of prose! I love it!! I especially like that you compare songwriting to surfing, because that's something I say all the time when I coach artists to unleash their creative superpowers. I can't think of any better analogy.

In fact, here's my standard line: When the inspiration comes, it's like an immense, invisible wave. You wait for it, and wait for it, and when it comes, it comes with power, surging up under you and carrying you off to the heavens... until it slips away from you!

Christine Anderson
www.christineanderson.net

[brianlewis]

Making music is like surfing... funny! That's what Christine says too. That's the frame of mind I have to find when I "lose myself" while playing the drums.

Brian

[xhkxboix]

haha i understand what you mean by that..
lol

When i write songs i just think about what i'm gonna be writing and then the words just start putting themselves together and forming lines and rhymes and it's just like a "*river flows in you*" and it's just like learning to play an instrument.. where you just have to learn how to go with the flow.. and play as if it were natural for you to do so.. and not try to force things out..
it seems that when i try to force the lyrics out, they tend to come out very cheesy.. iunno.. lol

but yeah.. i totally see what you mean!! lol

[gypsyleeboy]

Making music is like eating, if you think about it you choke.

a good tune writes itself

[monetmelly]

Hey thats real creative nice words however I enjoy songwriting then surfing me and the ocean doesn't mix at all.