I Hate Mornings

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 14 songs and I have 34 days left to write the other 36!
Check out all the song demos and [...]

Jonathan Coulton became an internet superstar by writing songs about computer games, programmers, Flickr, the internet and associated themes (mostly zombies). That’s what he cares about and that’s what his audience cares about. He’s being authentic and connecting with like minds. He doesn’t try to get the rest of the world to listen. There are [...]

I’ve found myself writing a lot lately, both songs for the 50/90 Challenge and prose for the blog. My prose writing and songwriting skills are improving, and it’s mostly because I spend a lot of time actually writing. But I also study songwriting with berkleemusic.com and read about writing whenever I can. As any teacher [...]

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.
Who am I?
Andrea Stolpe wrote about authenticity of [...]