creativity Archives

On Discerning Your Niche

An informed OpEd for artists on finding and encapsulating your creative niche, that which sets you apart and provides an avenue for passion.

5 Steps for Achieving Your New Years Goals in 2021

A new take on the familiar New Year oriented goals post, encouraging you to analyze the habits that prevent you from achieving them.

6 Easy Devices for Writing More Creative Lyrics

Are you lyrical ideas drying up? Do your references sound stale? Here are some quick tips for reinvigorating your lyrical creativity.

Here’s Just a Bunch of… Songwriting Prompts (Go Nuts!)

There’s really nothing complicated about this post. Songwriters, you looking for some quick inspiration? How about some lyric and melody ideas? We can help.

How Dreams Can Inspire Your Songwriting

Your dreams offer an evolving well of emotional and narrative depth that can only enhance your creative writing process, here are some tips to help!

On the Importance of Taste

A refined meditation on the subtle importance of artistic taste from a veteran music producer known for crossing aesthetic styles in unique ways.

Notes on the Birth of a Melody

From Soundfly Student Eva Grill, a beautiful reflection on where inspiration for melodic ideas comes from, and where it takes her when she follows it.

Practical Advice From Our Experts: Beating Writer’s Block

Writer’s block can strike anyone at any time. Here’s a list of our most helpful approaches to battling through creative blockages of all kinds.

9 Easy Places to Look for Creative Lyric Ideas

Whether writer’s block has got you down or you’re just looking for a few tools for consistent brainstorming, here are nine places to look for lyric ideas.