With the latest song I wrote/recorded/mixed, I had a single goal in mind: to jumpstart the writing of a screenplay that had stalled. Let me explain...
Besides being a musician, I'm also an actor (and a writer, a designer, yadda-yadda-yadda, ad infinitum). Mainly, though--these days--I'm an actor. I played a rather large role in a feature film a couple of years ago and the guy who wrote and directed it (Karim) made another film last year, a short, and he cast me in that, too. The short film was entered into a contest hosted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and won its region. It didn't win at the national level, but came in either second or third (I don't remember which for sure, but I think it was second).
Anyway, my friend, Karim, decided to expand the short into a feature and, of course, he is planning to once again cast me. Over the summer, however, the writing stalled and he put it aside and started working on something else. At about the same time, I was writing a ditty to use as background music for a demo reel. One day my wife played a song by a French band; it was about how crazy it can be to fall in love and I was inspired.
So, I wrote "How Do You Know (When You're Falling in Love)?" based on the tune I was using for the ditty. And then I heard about the stalled script and realized just how well the song fit the movie and decided to record it, give it as "full" a treatment as I could and send it to Karim as inspiration to get the scriptwriting unstalled.
And it worked. Karim is now back it, doing a page-one rewrite. This is the fifth draft and it looks like it's going to be THE one.