an introduction to me and this blog.

by em - September 05, 2018

who am i?

i have to make this blog for a mass communications class i'm taking, not that i don't want to do it though. i've always wanted to start a blog but i never knew what to make it about or had the motivation to maintain it, but now i kind of don't have a choice.
the blog idea is kind of stupid because honestly how many posts can i make about how to write a song? the answer? not many.
i decided to choose this idea for a blog because i like to write songs, and some of the biggest helps with learning how to was blogs and articles on advice on how to write a decent song. now i've only written a couple songs, and at least one of them is a joke song, but the other three are real. i'd share them but their all pretty personal and since people from school will see this i'd rather not.
we have to have three posts in total, including this post, but i have an idea for a fourth so i might do that, but the topics i'll 100% be covering are:

- basic chord progressions for different genres of songs
- topics to write songs about
- the cliches to avoid when songwriting

maybe i'll end up continuing this blog after this unit is over in class, but who knows?

to introduce myself, my name is emma cox. i'm a sophomore at a highschool in iowa. im 15, and of course, i love writing songs and making music. i've been singing for as long as i can remember and since i was very young i wanted to be a musician when i grew up, and while that's still a goal of mine, i plan on going to school become a therapist.

i have naturally brown hair, but i've dyed it all different colors, the main one i always go back to being any shade of red. i have bluish grey eyes and i wear glasses. i wear a lot of black but i try to branch out and wear different colors. i also have my nose pierced and am currently wearing a black hoop.

i have a best friend named miranda who i call merda, and we hang at least two times a week. shes really funny and i've been going to church with her lately, which is really fun.

i have a dog named leia, who is a pomeranian/ mini poodle mix, but we call her lil bit most of the time, and then we have a cat named simba, who isnt technically our cat. hes my oldest brother's cat, but we've had him for a two years or so since he cant have him where he lives because he has too many animals already. he's an american curl. we're also in the process of adopting a new dog, who we haven't given a name too yet. she is an anatolian shepard/ great pyrenees mix.

speaking of siblings, i have two brothers. christian, who is 23 and lives out of the house, and then dolan, who is 17 and still lives at home with us. then i also have a soon to be sister-in-law, genevieve, who is engaged to christian, but she's basically already family to us.

and finally, that's the end of my first post. there's most definitely something i'm forgetting but this post is way longer than it needed to be, so this is it. i hope you like my mediocre blog posts coming soon!