Guitar Nerds Anonymous

It doesn't help I've never written lyrics and hate the sound of my own voice.
I'm terrible at lyrics and don't push myself anywhere near hard enough to write them.

I've struggled so hard with this for my entire life, always been a guitarist guitarist...
During Covid my mate Lewis (bass) and I started what working on what would become the band that we're recording at the moment and it was basically just something to do once a week ot get out of the house and sit with some acoustic guitars and try to write songs...

It's definitely a muscle and the more of it we did the easier it got and the better the results. I've recently even gotten to a point where I'm comfortable writing on my own now and again, pretty happy with the results of how that's been going...
In terms of vocal I can solely attribute any capabilities I have as a singer to existing solely on a diet of Bon Iver throughout a lot of Covid... listening to Justin Vernon and singing along in the car made me realise I've forever been trying to sing in the wrong register to try and sound like other people when my voice is better suited to lower registers and falsetto...
I'm by no means a great singer or vocalist all of a sudden but I definitely feel like I've found my voice on both fronts in the last few years...