Writing a Song Everyday in 2025

Hi beautiful human!

It’s been a little while since I’ve written here, and I’ve really missed doing so. I hope you are having an awesome start to this new year. Personally, I feel a magical twinge about 2025. There’s something in the air. A call to create. A call to show up. A call to really back myself. Are you feeling that too?

In the spirit of that feeling, I’ve set myself a bit of a challenge: to write a song everyday in 2025.

I have been writing songs since I was at least 11 years old. Fun fact about that actually: I wrote my very first song in my sleep! I woke up one day singing a whole entire song, lyrics and melody and all. It was even accompanied by an imagined cinematic music video playing out in my mind. Music has always felt like a ‘calling’ for me; and evidently it calls 24/7 (even when I am sleeping).

However, it’s been a little while since I’ve found a flow with songwriting. Life happens. I find reasons not to show up and allow for something to blossom. Life happens some more. But I know that when I am showing up for creativity and songwriting, I feel so vibrant and alive. I have a channel to express myself and experiences. And I also happen to really love writing and creating too. It’s so easy to forget that when it’s been a while between songs.

What sparked the idea to write everyday this year? In November 2024, I had the amazing opportunity to visit the USA to celebrate Thanksgiving with my partner’s family over there. Before heading to where they are based (in California), we headed to a magical place aptly given the name ‘Music City’: Nashville, Tennessee.

I was so nervous arriving in Nashville. I was so desperate for a holiday. So burnt out from a long few years of full-time cover gigging. The last thing I wanted was to be reminded of everything that was causing me so much exhaustion and confusion back at home. But slowly and surely enough; one writers’ round after another; I began to feel inspired again. A spark igniting in me…not for just music itself, but for artistry. For songwriting and expression. In a city full of songwriters, I began to feel a glimmer of hope that I could count myself as one again too. That maybe one day I would find myself back in Nashville, playing writers’ rounds and co-writing with the locals. But first, I was going to need some more songs.

The dream to return to Nashville sparked this idea to write everyday for a year. To fall in love with writing again. To heal any creative wounds and blocks. To show up everyday for 365 days, sit my butt down and create.

I’ve heard so many fellow artists over the years describe writing as a practice. Something that we can grow upon and improve by showing up more and more. I’ve heard songwriters like Ed Sheeran and Pat Pattison talk about the importance of allowing yourself to write shitty songs. Julia Cameron speaks about our job being to ‘do the work, not judge the work’. She speaks of a power, a ‘great creator’ that yearns for us to create. One of her favourite prayer-like mottos she uses is, “Great Creator, I will take care of the quantity; you take care of the quality”. These are just some of the philosophies and values that are supporting my creative process at the beginning of this daily songwriting journey.

42 days into 2025 (and 42 days of songwriting), and boy am I learning so much about myself and my creativity in this process.

Sitting my butt down to write is harder some days, easier others. The more I think about writing as a practice, the simpler the act of showing up feels. I do my best to allow whatever wants to come through to come through. At the start of the year, a lot fictional songs and ideas would come through. The more that time goes on, the more real and honest the songs become. It’s as if my inner artist is growing to feel more safe and comfortable in our creative space with each day and song. As she learns that it is a safe space to create without judgement, authentic expression can come through.

While I originally set out to write everyday in an effort to have more songs in my repertoire, I didn’t anticipate that the main effect of this challenge would be the healing and joy that I am experiencing. Childhood desires, passions and yearnings of all kinds are presenting themselves so naturally again as I engage in an artistic endeavour that I loved to pursue as a tiny human. I’m drawn to movies I loved as a kid. Games I loved to play. Crafty activities that lit me up as a child. My radar for wonder and joy feels turned on and more expansive. It’s amazing how connected creativity is to these parts of ourselves. And the effects of nurturing these creative, child-like parts of ourselves.

With 42 days down and 323 days to go, my daily songwriting journey is only really just beginning. But it already feels like one of the best things I have ever done for myself. Reminding myself that I am deserving of the space to create and express myself, and to do so with care, patience and kindness…feels incredibly healing. I know the effects will carry over many years beyond this one, because I don’t ever want to stop nurturing my inner artist now that I’ve started again.

We are ALL creative beings. We all deserve the space to be creative, to express ourselves, to nourish these parts of our beings. The world seems to feel a whole lot more expansive, JOY-full and WONDER-full when we do.

Thank you for reading beautiful human. Have a beautiful, creative week ahead!

Lots of love,