May I Take Your Order?

Continuing our perambulations through Le Manifeste Inachevé , we arrive at #4:

4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).
Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

Ah, yes! Your best so far, Mr. Mau. For all its gifts, a maddening feature of our modern world is a paralyzing craving for control, order and perfection. The misguided belief that accidents are necessarily bad or wrong gives rise to ever more laws and insurance regulations bent on choking off all things unplanned.

How this Relates to Songwriting

There are no recorded fatalities or even minor injuries incurred while writing a song. Check your inner bureaucrat at the door and make havoc and mayhem part of your process. Take time to acknowledge the beauty of your mistakes. Pause to wonder where that gaffe would lead if you followed. Out, damn'd order!