It is nearly February. For the last two years, the second month of the year has meant only one thing to me: February Album Writing Month!
What’s that then?
FAWM is a songwriting challenge. The idea is to write 14 new songs or pieces of music. If you can, record them upload them and generally share them with others via the website fawm.org.
Is that it?
Not quite. The best thing about FAWM is the community. The FAWM forums are full of wonderful, creative fellow songwriters, all of them eager to leave helpful, constructive comments on your songs. You can find people to collaborate with, people to advise you on recording technology, music theory or any other subject. Most of all, you can find like minded songwriters, all of them eager to expand their song crafting skills.
A lot of my best songs in the last couple of years have been composed as part of the FAWM challenge, and I heartily recommend you give it a go.
If you do, here are a few FAWMers to check out:
Burr Settles (Founder of FAWM)
Charlie Cheney
T.C. Elliott
Helen’s Evil Twin
And of course Me
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