Don’t overcook it
Lori McKenna compares writing a song to chasing a wounded bird down the road: it leads you, but not in the direction you expect, and you’ve got to catch it without wounding it.1
To use a different analogy, Don’t coddle your song.
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Saved by a Song pg. 2 ↩
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