The Organized Songwriter: How to Create Space to Write Your Best Songs

By: Simon Hawkins

Narrated by: Sandra Hawkins

Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

Time is short. Ridiculously short. As songwriters, there are a million things that try to take us away from our precious time doing what we love doing - the beautiful craft of songwriting. The Organized Songwriter: How to Create Space to Write Your Best Songs offers fresh insights to help you be more productive. Just like a pro.

Does any of this sound familiar?

• You try to write a cool song, but a million things stop you from writing your best work
• You need your best song ideas to introduce to your co-writer, but they are nowhere to be found
• You've spent a fortune on software and hardware, but still not sure you've got the right tools you need to be a successful songwriter

Ultimately, do you worry that life is moving way too fast for you to make the impact as the songwriter you are called to be? In The Organized Songwriter, award-winning songwriter Simon Hawkins gives you solutions to these issues and more, including:

• Well-developed professional ways to organize your precious ideas and songs
• The tools of the trade for pro songwriters
• Tips for making the most of your co-writing sessions

This audiobook also builds on the foundation of Song Maps - a new system to write your best lyrics, with a second songwriter’s secret weapon. Whether you’re an experienced songwriter or you’ve only just discovered the beautiful craft of songwriting, this audiobook is packed full of insights into how you can become a more prolific and successful songwriter. The organized songwriter.

©2020 Mr Simon Hawkins (P)2021 Mr Simon Hawkins

Critic reviews

"A fantastic read that cuts to the heart of what it feels like to struggle and triumph as a creative. This audiobook is a wealth of action steps to push through the invisible barrier that keeps many of us stuck. A fresh perspective that blends the mystery of creativity and the tangibility of results-driven music-making." (Andrea Stolpe, instructor at Berklee Music School, multi-platinum recorded songwriter, artist, and author)

Hack

Don’t waste your time. You’ll never get it back.
Almost all the useful information is contained in the title. “If you want to be a songwriter, it helps to be organized.”

This book suffers from all the faults that plague the songwriting aid sub-genre. Most of this book is filler. There’s an excess of fanciful anecdotes that feel like an excuse to remind you that the author’s a bigshot in Nashville. A few clumsy phrases like “becoming more and more professional” are carpet bombed throughout. As a writer you’d think he’d be mindful of redundancies like this, economy, precision, and verbs — just say “gain expertise”or something.
Every page is infected with smarm and the relentless optimism of self-help-cult dogma.
The recording was put forward with an equaled carelessness. It’s riddled with poor audio quality, background noise, and glaring mistakes that would easily have been cleared out had anyone bothered to give it a casual listen before they dumped it on the market.

This is the latest seemingly unedited turd this author’s squeezed out. There’s little care or effort that went into it — and it shows.
Don’t give your money or your time to this unscrupulous hack or any of his other cash-grabs.