Back in March, we announced plans for a weekly series of FAWM 2008 summaries in the form of fun and interesting statistics about this year’s project. Perhaps it will be more of a bi-monthly thing at the rate we are going? At any rate, post #2 in this series focuses on some interesting data about […]
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I may be a songwriter, but I am primarily a scientist. And even though I didn’t conceive of FAWM as a data set to be studied (in fact, I had no idea it would grow into what it is now), I must confess that the annual aftermath is one of my favorite parts. So many […]
Strangle Disco 101
By on 02-Feb-08 @ 10:48am in Strangle Disco, Statistics and Fun Stuff. 3 CommentsOne of the most interesting things to come out of the FAWM 2007 challenge last year was a “genre” called Strangle Disco. It originated as a challenge in an anagram-themed thread of the forums, and accidentally grew into a phenomenon within the community, generating 52 songs by the end of the month. Additionally, websites were […]
February approaches, and that means it’s time to gear up for the Fifth annual February Album Writing Month. What’s more… 2008 is a LEAP FAWM! That means writing 14½ songs in 28 29 days this year. You know you want to. See you over at: FAWM.ORG.
Greetings fellow fawmers… February approaches! The 2008 FAWM.ORG website is nearing completion and will be launching soon. (But more on that later.) In the meantime, we thought everyone would like to know that the FAWM compilation CD catalog is now available online via the iTunes music store for all you download-savvy types. (And more online […]
For any fawmers who are tempted to tackle FAWM’s sister challenge for fiction, consider doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this November. The goal is to crank out a 50,000 word story in 30 days.
I did the NaNo thing back in 2003, and don’t regret it at all. (You might, if you actually read my […]
The FAWM CD3 listening committee is pleased to (finally) announce the songs that will represent the FAWM 2007 experience on this year’s compilation. It was a tough job: we listened to over 80 great tracks (more than 4.5 hours of music!) and had to narrow it down to a mere fraction of that. Wow! Here […]