i remember reading awhile ago about an exercise where you’d force yourself to write a song every day for a week. a whole song. not necessarily a refined song, mind you, but a complete one nonetheless.  i think it was something glen phillips did with nickel creek when they were on a bus once, if memory serves, but that’s neither here nor there.

in any event, it sounded intriguing to me and i resolved to try it at some point.  well that point has arrived.  it begins today.

i’ll be reporting on each day’s foray and let you know how it goes.  it should be an adventure for sure.

most songwriters seem to acknowledge that 8 or 9 out of every 10 songs you write are total crap.  so statistically speaking if i do this for 5 days i’ll be lucky if even one of them is good.  :)  but the point of the exercise is the exercise itself i’m told, so we will press on anyway.

and…..begin!