Consistency

I enjoy the consistency of my practice routine.  This may sound strange since when most people think about playing an instrument, they sort of imagine jazz musicians that can just sort of improvise songs whenever they like.  This is something I probably won't be as strong at, at least not right now.  The way that I practice, I work on the hardest parts of my songs and do scales.  This helps me to develop physically and puts me in what I consider to be a very strong songwriting position.  As I slowly get better, my practice routine changes slightly.  This is slower than you might expect since I have to be fairly comfortable with something to say that I'm getting better.  But what it does do is give me a regular affirmation of exactly where I am so that if I wanted to do something like improvise, I could know where I am starting from.

Getting Worried

Inspiration is starting to run dry.  I don't know exactly what to think about it, since I'm going to keep practicing in the exact same way every day.  I will have fewer things to write about for a while.  I will be accomplishing less.  It's not really such a bad thing, but that's just the way things are.  I know the obvious answer.  I need to get out and have more experiences.  I need to distance myself from where I am so I can think from a different place.  If you spend all your time thinking about stuff from the exact same place, you might find that your ideas are fairly similar.  Obviously I've decided that this is a bad thing for me at the moment.  Going back and working with my current ideas seems like even more of a chore, so I'll have to stop complaining for now.