I’ve been away from home and quite busy for the last few months, trying to earn some money for my gap year. However, once again I find myself unemployed and at a loss of what to do, so I’ve started writing new songs. There’s some stuff that I’ve been kicking about for months but a few days ago I settled down with my guitar and just wrote. Not all of it is wonderful, but there is potential for evolution.
Besides that, I’ve got a few pet projects and ideas I want to develop. Maybe a concept album, that’d be fun. I have an idea of what I want to do, but I’m not sure how it’ll come out in the execution. And in general, what direction am I going to take? I’d like to write a song that tells a story, I want to learn a new instrument, I want to surprise myself somehow.
I got my A-level results in August but I don’t think they’re quite good enough to get me into the university I’m aiming for. In the meantime, for the wait, I have my gap year planned out – next month I hope to go to Paris, and after that I’m off around the world from Christmas until next June. But otherwise I have no idea what I’ll do with my life. I might absorb some of the cultures on my travels. Or I might not.
