Notebook : pages 23-24

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When I was working through the notebook, I would start new song ideas on a right-side page and go from there. After I sketched out the first few ideas in the initial pages, I started working more slowly, generating new ideas straight to paper rather than transcribing things that I'd already put together in my head.

And so I'd leave space, and this is what happens when I overestimate just how much mileage I'm going to get out of an idea. Embarassing. I wish I could say I skipped it by accident.

When I set out on February 1 to write the album, I figured I'd end up with twelve or thirteen songs and about 45 minutes of music. What I ended up with was 10 songs even and barely more than 30 minutes. These blank pages are as good an analogue as any for my failure to put as much work into the writing of the album as I'd hoped. They're a figurative symbol for that failure, sure, but also a literal symptom of it—the very pages that I skipped.