My uncle, an amazing guitarist, has taken to sending me demos of stuff he's been working on. He's asked me to work up some lyrics for the songs. This is the first effort. Not my best ever, but it feels good to be writing again.When you wake up at 4 in the mornin ( Read more... )

This is a song I started ages ago. Had the first verse, the chorus, and part of the second verse written in one sitting. I went back and edited the first verse and chorus and added to the second verse (tweaking a few words here and there in what I already had of verse two), then added a third verse and set the whole thing to chords. I'm fairly ( Read more... )

Long time no see, folks. Haven't really written much since...um...February, but I did start putting this down on paper about a week ago. I've fiddled with it a bit since then, adding and removing pieces I liked or didn't care for. It's very much a work in progress. Damn thing still needs a chorus, for starters. But hey, it's words on a page, ( Read more... )

My wife Michelle doesn't really go in much for the commodified expression of corporate-approved love (i.e., Valentine's Day), but I'm a sentimentalist and will take any excuse to shower love and affection on my significant other. Honestly, I don't really need a reason to do it, per se, but it's nice to have an excuse to give her presents and say ( Read more... )

Here's another song I wrote in class that night. I figured it'd have a sort of Carl Perkins feel to it, but that'll probably depend largely on Clyde.

Also, I got married this weekend. Go Team Cottrell! ~chuckI was never out hittin' the town ( Read more... )

Here's a song I finished up while sitting in class last night. It was a really productive night: two complete songs, half of another, and a rewrite to a verse from a previously-completed song that I'd never really felt happy about before. Granted, I learned squat about post-secondary transition education, but what can you do? ~chuckDo I have ( Read more... )

Dunno what this'll end up being, if anything. Could be a short story, could be a comic idea. I'm not really certain yet. Depends on how it all plays itself out. Guess we'll see... ~chuckHow far back do we go to find a beginning ( Read more... )

Got bored during my planning period (which is what happens when you've got all your classes planned out two weeks in advance), and this is just the start of something I jotted down. ~chuckWe rolled the windows down ( Read more... )

Finally wrote a whole song, start to finish, for the first time in much too long (last whole song I wrote in one shot was back in March or April). Wrote this one during church, where I get a lot of my writing done (hey, the pastor gives decent sermons, but they go on much too long). Anyway, let me know what you think. ~chuckYou freed the ( Read more... )

My most recent lyrical endeavours. And yes, I spell "endeavours" the British way. I'm an Anglophile, so deal with it. This is for one of the songs Clif wants me to write, about a relationship that started out good but has gone to bad. ~chuckIs our love just a scrapbook ( Read more... )