Sun, Jul 19 2026 · 20:00 Your Local Time (18:00 UTC)
Songwriting: Finishing Songs
Every great song has to reach the finish line. In this session, Lieven will help you expand your ideas beyond the first verse, refine your lyrics, and discover why sometimes less really is more.
https://www.justinguitar.com/clubs
Slide deck:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YrfyTsMa6oLS84s1cJ4u1TSoqguEOyPP9y2DjU13oxQ/edit?usp=sharing
Registered. Hoping to attend if the fish aren’t biting. 
Definately watch the recording.
I was sad to come home from the sea after a too short holiday, but now - seeing this Club announced makes me happy and look forward to it! Thank you Lieven!
Rule #1
Finish before the deadline! 
In my case our local songwriting challenge had to be in by today, so your club is a tad late for me. Maybe I should watch it and analyse where I go wrong! 
Doing a little homework here --this is an original song from @LievenDV:
You found the song I wrote, composed and recorded in only a few hours time for a friend that just announced he had been fighting pancreatic cancer and choose for euthanasia. He broke the news in a video on facebook, only a brief time before the procedure and funeral. I performed this song as well on the funeral.
It was the proof that I need pressure to perform but I perform best under pressure.
Rewatching it, I see I used some “tricks” that I keep on using 
Something that will be on the menu tomorrow
I have vastly more issues finding inspiration to start a song than finishing one once I’ve started. That said, @LievenDV’s club presentations are always helpful and I’ll definitely be watching the recording.
The session will present a bunch of exercises that will make you produce more output. I think some of them will help with inspiration. (as in: “get that engine running”)
I often benefit from some pressure too. Maybe that’s a trick to use for me then!
It must have been hard to perform at the funeral. Probably you got some strategy to free your mind from sadness, maybe in concentrating extremely during that time?
At least that’s roughly what my sister (she was a classical singer) told me once about her funeral performances at beloved persons’ funerals.
Haha, I always find lots of starts, maybe we should team up
Well done, sir! Having some exercises to get us out of our heads when we are stuck is a great idea. I usually just jump to the next unfinished song and hope to make some progress. Here are some notes that I jotted down to help with my own process:
Thanks a lot Lieven!
Sorry if I have been too chatty during the club!
The subject and your great topics and suggestions raised my motivation a lot!
Slide deck of this session:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YrfyTsMa6oLS84s1cJ4u1TSoqguEOyPP9y2DjU13oxQ/edit?usp=sharing
By all means, there is a chat function for you guys to discuss the subject!
trying to focus real hard will only be contraproductive.
You have to let got, set yourself open and let it all flow in so you can channel it again to the people there. I suppose you need to brace yourself for a hefty “bandwith” of energy and emotion but you better try to channel it than to stop it. You have no other choice than to USE is.
Use your vurnerability and play the song carried by the support of your friends closeby. Their respect for your courage is immense and I could feel it, almost touch it. So I just go with that flow and bring it with the feeling of the moment.
Great session, Lieven! I still need some time to digest all the input (and probably a rewatch), but it definitely was fruitful already.
In the chat, I wrote about a song I have lying around for more than half a year, which is missing a second verse. It still has no second verse, BUT a half third one leading into the bridge. We are getting closer to the finish line with this one…
So to cut a long story short: Thanks a ton for this club!
That sounds great, that means you have at least a rough idea on the story arc in general
Perhaps the constraint of the room between point A (verse 1) and point B (verse 3) can offer the constraint your creativity needs to squeeze out the natural chain of storytelling for you!
Watched the recording. Good session. I should follow up with the others you referred back to. I really liked the Minimum Viable Product graphic and it actually lines up at least somewhat with how my current songwriting project is progressing.