and... another challenge (50 songs in 90 days)

[hummingbird]

Anyone else up for '50-songs-in-90 days'?http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/50songs90days/

[hummingbird]

Quote:Dave, this is something you oughta try. Admit it, you're already keen on the idea!uh huh - how about you, Steve? Might keep us off the forum... (or maybe posting lots of new songs )

[sgs4u]

Quote:uh huh - how about you, Steve? Might keep us off the forum... (or maybe posting lots of new songs )Wait a minute, this forum brings me great joy and connection... I never feel like I spend too much time here, no never at all... Vikki, I would truly love to try it. But I know what havoc this would wreak in my life. I already have at least 20 things on the go, and that's at least 15 too many. My "when I get around to it pile," would become larger than my ability to cope with it. I would sink back into my creative guy "depression," and feel less fulfilled that I wasn't getting enough recordings completed and moving. Now if there was only a competition to find 50 new places to make money from my music. Oh yeah, I forgot, I'm already doing Taxi.

[hummingbird]

Quote:50 songs 90 days seems too long, and people would lose interest and forget about it. How about 50 songs in 10 daysrobbie tuckerwww.robbietucker.comThere's no rule that says you have to write the last song on the 90th day. By all means, write 5 songs a day and get it done

[edteja]

I'm holding back till the approaching deadline gets my blood going. Not really, but I am managing to leap out behind the pack in a wonderfully even-paced start. I have set a tempo that will be easy to maintain. Too bad it is nonfunctional for the purpose.

[sgs4u]

Quote:I'm way behind.... I wrote a lot of snippets... stuff I could say was a song... but all except two are what I would call songs "written to the finish"..... the rest of the stuff was ....?? .... trash... silly stuff.... playing around.... ?..... does it count toward the 50?I don't think there'll be any damaging penalty points.

[hummingbird]

Quote:I'm way behind.... I wrote a lot of snippets... stuff I could say was a song... but all except two are what I would call songs "written to the finish"..... the rest of the stuff was ....?? .... trash... silly stuff.... playing around.... ?..... does it count toward the 50?Yes, silly stuff counts. If you'd like to hear a couple of mine...Oh Sleep- http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInf ... 5522510Get a Job- http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInf ... 5529403I'm way behind too.... but we do have til the end of September

[johnnydean1]

What a futile exercise.

[hummingbird]

Quote:What a futile exercise. As much as I dislike disagreeing with you, JD1, I don't think it is futile to challenge yourself to write. Certainly not everything is going to be a hit, but that isn't the point. The fact that you got up everyday and wrote will strengthen your creative muscle. I also have done FAWM (14 songs in 28 days) and NaNoWriMo (write 50,000 words of a novel in November). The point of any challenge is that it pushes to write, and that you write stuff you never would have written without that motivation. Ralph Murphy once said that a pro writer might write 50 songs to find that one hit song. IMO it's a songwriter's job to write. I'm amazed when I meet songwriters who only write a song once in a blue moon. I work on writing music every day. I'm also working on a novel (thanks to NaNoWri) and everyone keeps asking when I'm going to write that book on the creative process. I don't say that so you can all go 'oh Vikki you are so great', I say that because, if I can do it, you can do it. We are artists, and artists work on their art on a consistent basis, knowing some of it will be crap, some of it will have a grain of something worthwhile that might become the foundation for another piece, and hopefully one or two pieces will really shine. If you don't write consistently, what are your chances of finding the gold nuggets?H

[johnnydean1]

Quote:Quote:What a futile exercise. As much as I dislike disagreeing with you, JD1, I don't think it is futile to challenge yourself to write. Certainly not everything is going to be a hit, but that isn't the point. The fact that you got up everyday and wrote will strengthen your creative muscle. I also have done FAWM (14 songs in 28 days) and NaNoWriMo (write 50,000 words of a novel in November). The point of any challenge is that it pushes to write, and that you write stuff you never would have written without that motivation. Ralph Murphy once said that a pro writer might write 50 songs to find that one hit song. IMO it's a songwriter's job to write. I'm amazed when I meet songwriters who only write a song once in a blue moon. I work on writing music every day. I'm also working on a novel (thanks to NaNoWri) and everyone keeps asking when I'm going to write that book on the creative process. I don't say that so you can all go 'oh Vikki you are so great', I say that because, if I can do it, you can do it. We are artists, and artists work on their art on a consistent basis, knowing some of it will be crap, some of it will have a grain of something worthwhile that might become the foundation for another piece, and hopefully one or two pieces will really shine. If you don't write consistently, what are your chances of finding the gold nuggets?HAs usual you reply with restraint and dignity(except for crap ) but yes,we will have to agree to disagree on this one.