Aug 18, 2008
Tags: 50/90, songwriting
I’m in the middle of a songwriting challenge. If I haven’t already told you about it, you can read why I’m doing the 50/90. Basically, I’m writing 50 songs in 90 days.
So far I have written 50 songs and I have ^KBCOUNTDOWN||fiftyninetydates$ days left to write the other 0!
Check out all the song demos and [...]
Aug 7, 2008
Tags: 50/90, promotion, songwriting
Good question. Not anyone you’ve heard of, that’s for sure. In fact, although I fully intend to get my songs covered by big names, to cowrite with rising stars and to make a fortune in royalties from random Japanese TV ads, for the moment I’m writing for me.
h3. Who am I?
Andrea Stolpe “wrote about”:http://andreastolpe.berkleemusicblogs.com/2008/08/04/write-what-you-know/ authenticity [...]
Jul 30, 2008
Tags: 50/90, productivity, songwriting
“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 [...]
Jul 11, 2008
Tags: 50/90, hugh fearnley-whittingstall, songwriting
So we’re a week into “50/90″:http://5090.fawm.org, and I’ve uploaded “one song”:http://5090.fawm.org/songs.php?id=38 and a “set of lyrics”:http://5090.fawm.org/songs.php?id=556. That doesn’t sound like a great average, but I have written four more that I haven’t had a chance to demo yet, so I’m going to be busy when I get back next week.
The list looks like this at [...]