{"id":28907,"date":"2024-02-29T21:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-mccartney-has-never-dealt-with-writers-block\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T21:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T21:03:37","slug":"paul-mccartney-has-never-dealt-with-writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-mccartney-has-never-dealt-with-writers-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney has never dealt with writer&#8217;s block"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-29\/M_PaulMcCartney_ABC.png\" alt><figcaption>ABC\/Heidi Gutman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While some songwriters may find themselves struggling to write tunes or finish a song, it seems that&#8217;s never really been a problem for\u00a0<strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a new Q&amp;A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulmccartney.com\/news\/you-gave-me-the-answer-do-you-experience-writers-block\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>on his website<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, McCartney\u00a0reveals that writer&#8217;s block is something he\u2019s never really had to deal with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI don\u2019t really get it. I\u2019m quite lucky with that &#8211; touch wood!\u201d he shares. \u201cI hardly ever sit down and go, \u2018I\u2019m going to write\u2019. It\u2019s nearly always when I\u2019ve got some time and there\u2019s nothing else I particularly want or need to do.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds, \u201cI can just sit down and noodle around with something because it\u2019s come from my own desire and not somebody else\u2019s, or of a requirement. It often comes reasonably easy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McCartney says he\u2019s blessed that he&#8217;s never really felt stuck on a tune, sharing, \u201cI sometimes tell the story of <strong>John (Lennon)<\/strong> and I having written just short of three hundred songs, and every time we sat down to write we came up with a song. Which is incredible!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Writing comes so easily to\u00a0McCartney that he\u00a0says\u00a0he sometimes has to stop what he\u2019s doing to take note of a song idea that his come to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019ve got endless bits of paper stuffed in places, which one of these days I swear I\u2019m going to get to!&#8221; he says. &#8220;But most things these days are written on my phone.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds that luckily he\u2019s his own boss and only gets concerned about writing if he\u2019s on a deadline, noting,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI can decide what I want to do and when I want to do it, and that helps with the writing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC\/Heidi Gutman While some songwriters may find themselves struggling to write tunes or finish a song, it seems that&#8217;s never really been a problem for\u00a0Paul McCartney.\u00a0 In a new Q&amp;A on his website, McCartney\u00a0reveals that writer&#8217;s block is something he\u2019s never really had to deal with. \u201cI don\u2019t really get<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-mccartney-has-never-dealt-with-writers-block\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}