It’s hard to keep your balance once you’re on a roll
children on unicycles
“Nick”:http://www.nickfuckinggill.com is drawing graphs to keep track of how many words he’s written each day. That smacks of meta-productivity and procrastination to me, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Either way, his admission prompted me to calculate my song rate so far in the “50/90 Challenge”:http://5090.fawm.org.
50 songs in 90 days means 0.556 songs each day. That’s a pretty heavy songwriting schedule. So far I’ve managed “five”:http://5090.fawm.org/writers.php?id=1747 in 26 days, which gives me a rather disappointing rate of 0.192 song/day. That’s no good. I’m running at just over 1/3 of the minimum rate. I need to write 45 songs in the remaining 64 days (a rate of 0.7 songs/day). That’s insane. I need to run some kind of songwriting “dash”:http://www.43folders.com/2005/09/08/kick-procrastinations-ass-run-a-dash.
So from now on, no more Mr Nice Guy. I’m going to spew out a song every single day. Even if it means I don’t eat, sleep or leave the house. I’m afraid we’re talking communication blackout (apart from “Twitter”:http://twitter.com/ihatemornings, of course ;o) until October 1st. Don’t expect me to answer the phone or read email. Facebook is definitely out. If I have a really productive day (ie. write two songs) I may resume contact long enough to shoot out a few 1-liners.
A song a day wouldn’t be too bad if I had nothing else to do but life gets real sometimes, and I’m taking on some web development projects to pay the rent. Speaking of which, if you need any XHTML/CSS/PHP coding done, I’m your man. ;o)
Wish me luck. I may be some time.
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3 Comments, Comment or Ping
boyatheart
Hi Ben,
I heard your Math-Rock song on 50/90. Yes 0.7 songs a day is pushing it, but you only need a couple of days where 3 songs just come out which brings down the required rate.
I know you’ll make the challenge as will I, but there’s no need to sacrifice quality for quantity, so just have faith in yourself that the songs will be there.
Actually my Weekly Song Cast was originally going to be a Daily one, but I then thought it might be such a big task I may never even get it off the ground!
Good luck man!
Aug 2nd, 2008
Ben Walker
Thanks, @boyatheart. I could do with that sort of optimism at the moment! I’m on about 0.5/day – catch up time…
Aug 5th, 2008
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