“The bug” is eating away at your brain. You decide right then and there that writing with Mrs. X is your ticket to success. The next symptom kicks in. Stalking. You find out where Mrs. X lives and you drive by her house occasionally. In braver moments, you slow down by her mailbox and practice the motions of slipping a CD into the box, closing the door and racing away before you are caught. If you are able to resist the “CD drop”, you drive back home pondering other ways to get to Mrs. X. Then it hits you. The grocery! Everyone goes to the grocery. You lurk in the grocery nearest her home, hoping for a sighting. If this brings no results, you decide to find out if Mrs. X is playing any shows in the near future. You find one just two weeks away! “Eureka”, you think!!! I will go to her show, compliment her music and ask her to write after the show. “No one has ever thought of that!!!”, you tell yourself! The bug is slowly eating away at your brain. In the quietness of your home, you look around at the walls that are bow plastered with pictures of Mrs. X. You realize that two weeks it too long to wait. You are in the final stages of “write-up-itis” and you turn to the dark side. Cyber stalking. You send Mrs. X a Facebook friend request. Slowly working your way into her world, you send her a compliment – “I love your writing.” Minutes pass with no response, so you send another – “You’re one of my heroes”. And you wait, and you wait. Thus, the story goes. The ending is too ugly to share. But, the point of the story is this. You have opportunities to write with very talented people right where you are. The key to this business is NOT figuring out how to “write up” every day with a big hit song writer. There is no crazy thing you can think of to do that hasn’t already been tried. And, if you spend all of your time stalking hit writers who aren’t likely to write with you anyway, you miss the GREAT opportunities that surround you every day.
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