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Day One Hundred Ninety One (Year Four)

So, I've been kicking the tires on an idea all day long.  I got a couple of opinions from people, but have mostly done the thinking in my head, and here's what I've come up with:  February is National Record Production Month.  There's an RPM Challenge, wherein you are supposed to write and record 10 songs (or 35 minutes) of music in February.  There's also the FAWM (February Album Writing Month) Challenge, where you're supposed to write (but not necessarily record) 14 songs in 28 days.

I've talked about it in this space in years past, and even half-heartedly tried the RPM Challenge (I think) a couple of times.

This year feels different.  Maybe it's "Put Up Or Shut Up" that has me feeling that way.  There's just something about 2014 that makes me think that, if there's a first time for everything, this is the first time for this.  I'm not sure I'll go so far as to sign up on either one of their respective websites (FAWM.org, rpmchallenge.com), but I think I'll pull aspects of both sites into my own thing.  They both have suggestions and motivators that will do me some good, I think.

Here's my (slightly adjusted) challenge to myself:

1) I'm going to try to write 14 songs in 28 days, but I'm going to allow that 4 of them won't turn out as anything good enough to put on a finished record, so in the end I hope to end up with 10 finished songs that I like enough to put onto a record of some sort.

2) I'd like to have lyrics done for at least some of them, but I won't be shocked if that doesn't happen.

3) In a perfect world, I'll get them all recorded in 28 days as well, but realistically, I'll be happy to just get them written in that time.  If the writing is all that's finished by the end of the month, I'll try to get the recording done in March.

I'm trying to be optimistic in my goal setting, while still realizing that I'll be working a lot and life will be busy.

But yeah, it starts tomorrow.  Bring it on!
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