“I forgot how to write.”
Sometimes, when it’s been a while since I’ve written any music, I can enter a period of feeling like I don’t know how to do it anymore. I feel as if any skills I had built over twenty years had vanished in the week or two since I put pen to paper.
In those moments, it’s nice to have a backstory. I can look back and remember feeling like that before. And I can remember that every past time I felt that way, it was temporary – I started writing again.
I still have to suffer the feeling; but it loses teeth when I remember that it’s only temporary.