Feels like the past month I have been anxious for one thing or another coming up. Releasing an album, going on a bike tour with my dad, getting some test results back, preparing for a sleep study. I always had something on my mind that was coming up soon. It consumed a lot more of my mental energy than I'd like.
I know that the Two Hour Track Challenge has its peaks and troughs when it comes to "quality", which is a nebulous metric anyway. But I feel we're at one of those low points in the cycle again where we're just jamming away to keep the wheels turning. Nothing wrong with that. I do like the songs, they just don't have that juice that the ones two months ago did. We'll get back there :)
Speaking of weekly songs; since November is National Solo Album Month, I am creating a backlog of songs and streams to schedule throughout November so I can focus solely on the album while still maintaining the promised "song a week" here. I did this last year and I feel it worked pretty well overall.
I'm still uploading the songs to the file sharing site as soon as they are done, but the posts (and YouTube videos) will be scheduled out on a weekly basis just so I can earn a bit of a backlog. That also means that I'm doing two challenges a week this whole month 😅
The two things I want to focus on this month are getting Season 15 of the Two Hour Track Challenge sent to distribution and also working on a few more chapters of my How To Write A Song in Two Hours book. It's also volume 20 of the Two Hour Album Challenge Oct 12-16th, which will be a ton of fun!
Busy times, but I am ready for it! It's a bit chaotic right now, but I'm managing :)
Hope you have a great day and I'm off to make some donations!
-b