February Album-Writing Month

[scrivener]

I just recently learned of February Album-Writing Month (http://www.fawm.org), or FAWM. For those of you familiar with National Novel-Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org[/url), the existence of FAWM will come as no surprise: This one challenges you to write fourteen songs in twenty-eight days.

Holy cow! I could never do that!

Then again...it seemed I'd never get a novel written either, four years ago when I first tried NaNoWriMo. The goal of NaNo was "big, messy prose," and if I apply that same mindset to songwriting, I wonder if maybe there might be one or two gems in that fourteen.

I think I'm going for it. I haven't signed up yet, but I'm going to pick up my guitar tonight and see if she's willing to give it a go. I know we've got some musicians here: What do you guys think? Are you willing to come up with a month of crap for the sake of prolificity, in hopes that something you put down might be worth developing?

I'll do it if you do it.

[Pua'i Mana'o]

does this mean one has to write both music and lyrics?

[scrivener]

Wow. Do you hear the crickets chirping? :)



I'm guessing that music without words is cool, but words without music isn't. I couldn't find anything about it in the FAQ, though.

Anyway, I'm doing it. You can follow my progress here (http://www.fawm.org/writers.php?id=672) if you are so inclined. I don't know what will come of this, but I'm hoping at least one thing good.

[Donna]

Good luck to you, Scrivener. And you thought NaNo was challenging? At least with NaNo, all you had to do was come up with the words -- a lot of 'em. Writing music seems so much more... well, involved. But then again, this is coming from someone who has never written a song in her life. In fact, it's been a year since I last touched my guitar. Boo.

Make us proud! You can do it!