If you’ve never tried February Album Writing Month (FAWM), I encourage you to try it this year.
FAWM is a free online songwriting workshop with a spirited, supportive community. The goal is to write 14 songs during the 28 days of February.
Writing one song every two days is faster than most non-professional songwriters compose, so it’s a fun challenge.
Songwriting for me has always meant sitting alone in a room with the guitar, the piano, the notebook, and the cat… so I always enjoy meeting songwriters from all over the world during FAWM.
FAWM pushes me through aspects of songwriting that I normally procrastinate… like actually recording my own finished songs, instead of hoarding them in notebooks and hard drives.
I’m using FAWM 2019 as an opportunity to finish “good ideas” that have been gathering dust in my notebooks and audio files for months.
Here’s my profile on the FAWM website; come say hello!
P.S. — Matt Blick wrote the song John Lennon Blues during FAWM 2018. It’s a keeper, and it’s the opening track on Matt’s new baritone guitar and voice album, Fifty Five Stories Down.
I am having problems finishing my songs and writing them so they make sense and the correct order. I am writing Christian songs.
Hi Melissa, finishing songs is always a struggle, so I hear you.
To make sure lyrics are in the right order and make sense, you could:
* Write a chorus, refrain, or first line that sets the song’s lyric topic
* Each verse section’s lyrics connect with the chorus topic in some way
* The verses present events or thoughts in an order that makes sense
That’s a very quick set of suggestions, but I hope this helps.