So, I've had something of a breakthrough.  A quick look at this blog will suggest to you that I have not recorded any music this year.  Last year, I really wanted to push myself to create, with mixed results.  I finished some stuff I'd been wanting to, but I also put out some stuff that wasn't terribly creative just to meet a "deadline."  This year, I'm applying no pressure at all to myself and the result is that I have recorded nothing.

One of my biggest problems in creating is the desire to not make anything bad.  This invariably holds me back.  I don't create because I can't yet make music that I really like.  I refuse to call something finished because it's not "good enough."

So here's the breakthrough: I've had an idea for an album for that I've been thinking about for more than a decade.  Some of the songs I recorded last year were for that album.  Well, I've decided to cancel it.  It's been a block to my creativity, but no longer.  Now, I want to make music just to make it, with no lofty concept-album goals.  I want to make music that's not good enough because I believe that's how I'll learn to make music that I like.