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 

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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."