Creativity that burns like wildfire

My eyes are locked on the screen…

I’m in a productivity trance — tuning vocals — when my studio door cracks open and my 4yr old kid Lottie walks in…

“Mum… I mean dad… I’m hungry”.

My eyes break away from the screen and I glance at her.

“Are you making music daddy?” She says with a tilted head.

“I am.” Trying to bottle my frustration.

(After all, she’s only 4)

“Can I listen?”

“To me tuning vocals…?”

“Can I have a snack?”

**sigh**

“Sure, let’s go to the kitchen.”

On my return… it takes at least 20mins to lock back in.

I love my kids to death.

But if you don’t guard your creative time, distractions can be song crushing.

I learned that early in my A&R career – creative focus is sacred and everyone in the room knows it.

If you’re in the writing room but not one of the writers… don’t talk during the session. Read your emails, respond to texts… be seen and not heard.

Otherwise, you risk breaking their train of thought and being blamed for a song not hitting the charts.

As this week I’ve challenged myself to produce demos for every song I’ve written with the Mona Lisa Lyric Method – I need as little distractions as possible.

It’s why I’m up at 5am every day – usually to write, but this week, to produce.

Without distractions, you’re free to play.

‘Play’ with fear of interruptions is just creative anxiety.

You’ve gotta make hard calls.

You wake up earlier.

(Hey, if surfers and fishermen can do it…)

You set (healthy) boundaries.

Then, commit to a proven method.

As living proof —> creativity is a wildfire when commitment, consistency and method all gather in one place, on a regular schedule.

Obviously, the method I recommend you use is the Mona Lisa Lyric Method.

Not because I gave it life...

But because:

…it lives and breathes the practices I witnessed in sessions with genre defining writers

…it keeps you focused on the right thing at the right time, so you can finish songs, feeling creatively fulfilled

…it sounds like snake oil, but your lines come out so melodic they almost sing themselves — you might even prefer it to melody-first.

And as I said yesterday…

Grab it by this Sunday 11:59pm EST, and when my new course on how to create kick patterns for your demos that elevate the melody is live… you’ll get it for free.

Not bad when it’s still at the launch price of $97 (soon to go up by $200).

I can’t make you wake up earlier.

I can’t stop your family breaking your creative focus.

But I can give you the method that will have you finishing more songs you’re proud to put your name on.

Find it here.

We didn’t start the fire…