Made By The Lake

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Since this blog is about "making things" and then selling them (which has to do with one's creativity) and with songwriting and artwork being "intellectual property" requiring skill and talent, I wanted to address "contests" in this article. I won't go into as much detail here, but I invite you to read more at my other blog: http://terryscottsings.blogspot.com . With songwriting as with any other creative product, my feeling is that one must not "give it away" free (unless one volunteers to do so, on their own, for personal and well thought out reasons). When one gives away their talents like this, they continue the cycle of the "poor artist" syndrome for everyone. When people do not pay for something, it then has little or no value. For hundreds (maybe thousands) of years, artists, songwriters, crafters of any form, have been taken advantage of in the way of "contests" and similar things. Imagine a group of p

Here’s a song that was “Made by the Lake ” about a place “by the Lake ” that comes alive every winter: Beautiful Bentleyville!   Songwriter Ter Scott offers readers the “behind the scenes” story of the how and why of the Bentleyville song at www.terscott.com/bentleyville along with helps and all kinds of materials to assist aspiring songwriters. “I’ve been writing music for years” says Scott. “There is always music and words playing inside me that just have to get out”. The Bentleyville song is dedicated to my grandkids: Grace, Mercy, Justice and Nia who love to visit the “magical shore where Zenith’s city’s all aglow” with their Grandpa “T”.   Scott plans to conduct songwriting classes in the future somewhere in the Twin Ports area.

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