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Day One Hundred Ninety Eight (Year Four)

Seems like the week went by really quickly.  It's been seven days of working on songs since my album-in-a-month challenge began.  I wanted to use tonight to go back through everything that got written this week, just to see where I stand with it at the end of the week.  It's starting to feel at least somewhat cohesive, which is cool.  I'm fairly certain that, out of the songs I've already got under way, I could find 5 of them that would make a solid EP, but I'm also at the point where the holes that are left in the full album idea are getting at least a little more obvious. 

I'm kind of shocked to admit that, at the end of the week, I still like everything I've written so far.  Liking something I've written initially, and then not being a big fan later on has always been an issue with me, so it's cool to not be running into that issue tonight.

I'm sitting at 8 songs after the first week of the challenge.  21 days to go.  Right now, I'm feeling like another good week will leave me in a spot to spend the last two weeks of the month writing lyrics and recording demos.  Granted, this weekend is going to need to be another big writing push if I'm going to have the songs done by next Friday, especially considering the way things went during the evenings this past week.  Nonetheless, I'm feeling a lot better about this process than I thought I would at this point.

Should be a great weekend.


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