I’m sure there must be one of you. If I’m lucky, then maybe there’s two. Or perhaps I’m still talking to myself after all this time. At any rate, I’ll carry on as if someone’s listening.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the past 4 1/2 years. A lot of thinking, processing, experimenting, contemplating and wondering. And I’ve been feeling lately, what with all the recent thinking, that maybe it’s come time for me to share a bit of what’s been going on in my head. To share my experiences and what I’ve learnt over this time as regards my creative practice in all its many and varied forms, both big-A and little-a art.

It’s been an amazing few years for me. In brief, I’ve gone from a cowering mess, having hardly written a note in over a year, no confidence and no clue how to pull my music back into my life, to a point where I’m looking back on a year in which I’ve sold a score, had two performances of my music and am about to start work on a CD of my own music. And this progress – while I’m the first to say that I still struggle with keeping my music centre-stage and maintaining momentum with that – is down to a lot of time spent trying to work out how to tackle my creativity issues, trying out new approaches and then modifying them.

So I’d like to have a stab at sorting through some of these things in a more concrete, wordy form, in the hopes that by marshalling my thoughts and experiences, not only can I help myself make more sense out of the last few years, but maybe help others too.

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