I find it quite helpful for my creativity to think about my music and I like to write it down. Since I assume that I'm not the only freak in the forum, I always think afterward that it can't hurt to publish it, even if many people just shake their heads incomprehensibly
When you compose music, after a certain time you start to develop structures and rules that make composing easier. You quickly learn which notes sound good and which don't, how a second melody has to behave to complement the first melody, etc. The more experienced you become with composing, the less trial-and-error the process of creating a song is based on, but you can focus on the aim of the song and get the maximum result from the working time.
However, this advantage also comes with a disadvantage. Because the more you rely on the rules and structures you have learned yourself, the more the song process becomes routine. It is becoming easier and easier to replace missing ideas with craftsmanship. In order to remedy this, it is necessary for me to compose loops that deliberately violate what has been a kind of strict rule for me for years. I also keep trying out sounds that I find ugly and inappropriate at first glance, in order to break with my musical routine.
But this approach also has a problem. How do I know if the new sound or melody is perfect, or if it's just different? To find out, I often have to let the song rest for days or weeks in order to then check the song again with fresh ears and be able to judge completely impartially whether these new ideas were good or just different, and then make a decision whether to keep it or discard it.
But even if I discard new ideas or sounds, the time I spent with them was not wasted time, but triggered a thought process that enriches me. Even if I then replace a weird song or melody with a more pleasing melody, the experience I had with the previous experiment remains in the subconscious.
That's exactly what's happening right now with the completion of song 7. When I started this song a few months ago, I was experimenting wildly but didn't know how to continue. When I heard the song with fresh ears 2 days ago, after a few hours I realized that I had to throw most of it away again. But shortly after I did that, a new, sad harmony emerged, which I'm working on now. A harmony that would probably would not have arisen, if I hadn't experimented chaotically beforehand.
