Thanks Josie.

I think you are right, and we should keep thinking about good ways to do all of this.

In most of my in-person songwriting groups (or even Zoom groups) there is a real collegiate atmosphere and you are with people you respect and trust because you have heard THEIR songs. (The same applies with many friends I have made here, including you. I have heard you, so I know you know what you are talking about.)

The only wild card with Internet forums is sometimes you will have crackpots flying in out of nowhere spouting all types of blowhard stuff, but you will never, ever hear a tune from them, so you have to just bite your tongue. But that is a fraction of the population.

CONSTRUCTIVE criticism from true colleagues is invaluable.

Blowhard remarks from psychos is hard to take, but we don't have much of that here, as I say.

So, let's keep thinking!!

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