Thanks for the link. That's just what I need to get going this year. On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Prent Rodgers wrote: > This year's RPM challenge has been announced. More information is > here: http://www.rpmchallenge.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ > > The idea is simple: Start February 1, record ten songs, or 35 minutes > of music, committed to a CD, and mail a copy to the organizers. > Details are on their web site. A summary is posted below. I did it > last year, and hope to get it done again this time. Make some music! > > Prent Rodgers > > ________________________________ > > From: RPM HQ [mailto:info@rpmchallenge.com] > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 7:30 AM > To: prentrodgers@comcast.net > Subject: RPM 2009: Yes We Can! > > > > Happy 2009! Some quick New Year's news: > > RPM 2009 is open for sign-ups! If you are a returning participant, login, go > to your profile, click on "edit" at the top and select "update your > profile," then check the box for 2009! We have it on good authority that RPM > 2009 is going to be 33% more fun -- can you believe it?? > > -- RPM HQ says: > "It's a little like National Novel Writing Month, (NaNoWriMo.org) > where writers challenge each other to write 1,700 words a day for 30 > days, or the great folks over at February Album Writing Month > (fawm.org), who encourage artists to write 14 new songs in February. > Maybe they don't have "Grapes of Wrath" or "Abbey Road" at the end of > the month, or maybe they do-but that's not the point. The point is > they get busy and stop waiting around for the muse to appear. Get the > gears moving. Do something. You can't write 1,700 words a day and not > get better. > > Don't wait for inspiration - taking action puts you in a position to > get inspired. You'll stumble across ideas you would have never come up > with otherwise, and maybe only because you were trying to meet a day's > quota of (song)writing. Show up and get something done, and invest in > yourself and each other." > > > > Send bugs reports to this list. > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound" >