You can make the challenge what you want it to be. Quality is, and always has been, a subjective word.

It’s primarily for hobbyists so if you are a writer in Nashville on Music Row writing 5 hits a day, this will be boring for you. Pass on by, nothing to see here.

But if you are not part of that rarefied air, it’s great fun and tons of different prompts and lyric writing games and challenges involved.

Honor system is the rule, no requirement to even record a demo onto your phone.

On Valentines Day the colorway of the site changes to pepto bismol pink and everyone’s avatar pic gets swapped out for a candy heart.

This is where I met Matt Blick years ago who hosts the excellent Tickets to Write website and the Beatles Songwriting Academy that someone posted about a month or so ago here.

I’ve met one of my collaborators from the challenge while I was on business in LA.

There are some massively talented people that participate every year. I am not one of them. Liz Frencham is an upright bassist from Oz with an amazing voice and she does great baseline and melody songs as well as collaborations with people from around the globe.

Old Lost John is a folkie from Sweden with a pack of smokes per hour voice, a woody acoustic, and a compelling story in every song.

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