http://blog.fawm.org Your official source for fawmsome updates Tue, 13 May 2008 22:33:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.fawm.org/2008/05/fawm-2008-anaylsis-2-fawmers/ 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 ... http://blog.fawm.org/2008/03/fawm-2008-anaylsis-1-traffic/ One 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 ... http://blog.fawm.org/2008/02/strangle-disco-101/ 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. http://blog.fawm.org/2008/01/february-album-writing-month-2008/ 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 ... http://blog.fawm.org/2008/01/fawmpilation-cds-on-itunes/ 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, ... http://blog.fawm.org/2007/11/nanowrimo/ This past July a handful of FAWMERS set out to undertake the Iron Man of Songwriting - The 50 Songs in 90 Days challenge. This challenge is similar to FAWM but at 3 times the length and a slightly more aggressive speed, this challenge is test of willpower, determination, ... http://blog.fawm.org/2007/10/the-50-songs-in-90-days-challenge/ 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 ... http://blog.fawm.org/2007/10/announcing-fawmpilation-vol-3/ Ahoy, all ye fawmin' maties... take note! It be talk like a pirate day, so hoist ye vents to the lee an' tarn yer eyes t'the seagalls. An' in the fawmin' spirit, write yerself a new sea-shanty to sing while sailin' the shimmerin' seas!! http://blog.fawm.org/2007/09/avast/ Earlier this year, I aspired to create a "2007 Annual Report" that summed up statistics and trends about this year's FAWM. I'd hoped to make it an annual tradition (like the fawmpilation CD) to document and characterize each year's event. However, I was just too busy to pull it together ... http://blog.fawm.org/2007/09/cartograms-of-fawm-2007/