I have spent the past week songwriting and building my repertoire of songs for my album. At the beginning of the week hit my green light. I sat in bed and wrote an entire song in under 10 minutes. Everything flowed. The words and melodies came out of my mouth faster than ever before. I became overwhelmed with pride. I recorded a rough demo on my phone and felt the emotions through the screen. That moment reminded me of why I love doing this. That breakthrough moment felt like a burst of color in the sometimes dull world of songwriting. My red light came when I hit a wall with songwriting. Writer’s block filled my mind and kept me tongue-tied. This writer’s block stuck with me for a few days, preventing me from writing even a sentence. I spiraled into self-doubt and creative loathing. I was questioning everything. It was just writer’s block, it felt more personal. It felt as if the Universe was trying to tell me something. I took to journaling to write, even if it wasn’t song lyrics, it still gave me hope. My yellow light moment took place at the studio. I came in to work on a new song I wrote that day. The song didn’t feel right, maybe it was too personal to share, or too broad to be personal. When I sang the song for my producer, he loved it. We decided the chorus didn’t fit, however, so we took to the drawing board to draft a new one. I had never co-written before and hated the idea of someone else writing my songs. We spent around an hour writing a chorus for this song. Listening back to the song, it feels like it’s impersonating me. It’s not my emotions nor my raw words, but it was a collaboration and that, I loved.