Phil,
Yes I do understand the "I'm too tired to write anymore, do any of this...." yeah. I know that one. I reached the same point 17 years ago when one publishing company had to let me go due to not being able to make any money at it, and then another one reniged on signing me due to a wayward attorney stabbing me in the back and cutting me out of a second deal. So yeah, I get the burnout factor. I'm going on my second DECADE of it.
The only thing I do is respond to posts that people put up. The point of "I've never heard this in a song..." comes up all the time. I try to give another side of that perspective, some examples and then the reasons WHY you might not have heard that particular idea.
At any rate, you can decide if you want or don't want to try something. It is an interesting challenge and can be done. Whether it is actually viable is another matter, which is one thing that happens in writing. We many times think we have had some unique idea, some new melodic pattern that we have NEVER heard, then someone goes to an average writers night and hears the same thing written over and over, OR goes to some pro writer and hear THEM do it in a way we never thought of making us throw up our hands and go "OKAY, I'M DONE!!!!" Happens all the time. That is what all of this is about. Whether you decide to take the challenge, keep going or just observe from a "safe distance" still is the same.
I'm currently in Gatlinburg again for another songwriter seminar after a show last night. Scott Southworth, Karen Reynolds and I will hear pretty much the same songs over and over and try to give some direction. Some will have something THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE. We'll have to inject some REALITY ourselves.
But I do get where you are coming from and support your decision to go on strike and deprive all the poor, poor retired people of your talents songs and "Philness" that they have come to depend on for bringing a small ray of sunshine into their other wise decrepit lives and as they slink off into the darkness, to go eat worms and bugs, because the "PHILBOY": has let them down to be depressed in their last moments, I do understand. Many of us, take that route, to let down their fellow human beings with their "I'm too tired to write anymore" retoric. We've seen it before.
When the Beach Boys DIDN'T go out of their way to help Charles Manson, look what happened.
I just hope none of your fans, the senior citizens, don't finally snap due to your inattention to their needs and do something terrible like knock over a bakery or geritol stand. But don't worry about it.
MAB
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