I agree with Kemmrich:

Satisfaction for me did not come until I started writing and performing my own material.

Get into the habit - join Kemmrich and I and a few other PG'ers at February Album Writing Month www.fawm.org

Goal is to write 14 songs in the month of February, each February.

Thousands participate now every year and many of them reach the goal. My success rate is 75% at reaching the goal, and out of those 14 songs each year, I have 2 or 3 true keepers that entertain myself and others.

Get into the discipline of writing your own material. There's lots of ways to go about it - copy a song structure from one of your favorite songs and replace chords, melody and lyrics, etc.

I try to do something new for me each year as part of the practice. Last year, the new thing for me was to write a song without a proper chorus, just a repeated refrain line on the ends of the verses.

-Scott

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