Hi everyone. I hope you are all doing well. Well 2025 was a busy year with life in general. There never seems to be enough time to focus on my creative interests – which includes writing. However, 2026 has something exciting in store because I have decided to create my own music EP! I have always loved singing at karaoke and recording cover songs, and I will be moving it a step further by writing and creating my own songs in an EP. This vlog has always focused on flash fiction and poetry and that will continue along with the addition of lyric writing – which in my opinion is very much like free-verse poetry. An EP is also fairly similar to fiction in that it has to have an emotion, a feeling, a theme, a story. I will be documenting my EP music creative journey on my YouTube channel ‘DonnaDarkle’. My short welcome video on the channel was posted today and is linked below. I’m not the most confident person in front of a camera but I’m hoping over time that it will become second nature. I guess I have to do what it takes to document my journey! So a question to you. Do you write lyrics, or have you ever put words to a melody? I think spoken poetry is a very close arena, and I believe some poets may well decide to move over to spoken poetry as a means to express their words through voice. It would be good to get a conversation going either over here or on my YouTube channel. I’m yet to meet new people within this area. The next YouTube post will be where I start the actual process. I will be sure to post all of the writing parts here on my blog. Wishing you all a great week and I’ll catch you soon 🙂 Donna
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Your new venture sounds exciting. Best of luck!
Thank you so much Gypsy Bev! I appreciate your kind words.
Very exciting news!
Thank you so much 😊 I will delving into the unknown with lots to learn but so excited!
That’s how the best adventures start!
Hi Donna, you look and sound lovely. This is an amazing project! I’ve written poetry for many years but have wondered how to write a poem that could be turned into a song. It will be great to follow your work. All the best!
Hi Barbara. That is so kind of you to say, I really appreciate it. Listening back to myself on video is not always the easiest 🤣 That’s wonderful you have written poetry. Maybe one day I could try to turn one of your poems into a song if you ever wanted me to – would be more than happy to. Thank you and all the best too.
That would be amazing if you could turn a poem into a song!