FAWM [Part 2]
There. I just signed up at FAWM.org. If I have any song progress, I'll most likely post it here, but just in case I don't – you can check my FAWM page at http://fawm.org/fawmers/sparx/.
February Album Writing Month
FAWM.org – the February Album Writing Month, is a challenge for song writers to write 14 songs during the month of February.
My bud Cacti introduced me to this (and has participated in it) for several years now, and I think I might try my hand at it, although not quite the 14 song goal. I think my target will be 1-2 songs, and if I have a surge of inspirado, I'll try to hit the full 14.
With (Cactus) Joe's help, at one point I felt like I had the creative chops to take on song writing, but my comfort zone ended up pulling me back down to feeling like a source of inspiration rather than a recipient of the inspirado. We'll see if February can pull me out of that comfort zone a little.
My normal "creative" outlet has been programming. When I get bored I churn out a few lines of Python code, and if I finish a project I then marvel in whatever it does. To anyone looking, it's just a bunch of code that maybe does some screwy processing with some random data source, spits out a bunch of numbers, whatever – but to me it's almost like writing a song, or creating a painting (painting a painting sounded weird).
So… if you have any great ideas for a song – do tell!