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2026: IT'S MY TWENTIETH FAWMIVERSARYYYYYYYYYYYY
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I've been writing songs since I was about eight, and have hundreds of them by now, almost three decades later. I've been doing FAWM (more or less) every year since 2006, and wrote twenty-eight songs my first year instead of fourteen.
And right now, on the cusp of my umpteenth FAWM, I have no idea how to write a song.
This is nothing new. I feel this way every time I finish a song. I feel this way at every moment when I'm not actively writing a song. And honestly, if I stopped to think about it, I would probably even feel this way WHILE I'm writing a song.
Every time, I'm starting from scratch. Every time, I'm back to square one. With every song I manage to achieve, I'm reinventing the wheel. Reinventing the will.
But where there's a will, there's a way. And somehow, the songs keep happening.
Welcome (back), friends and FAWMers!
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Happy 20th fawmiversary!
Good to see you back, Jinx, and Happy 20th anniversary. I just finished writing a half-dozen demos for my new band, and you'd think with 5 years of FAWM and a lifetime of writing the process would get easier. Definitely can relate to "have no idea how to write a song" which hit me hard at the 2 PM skirmish on "What I Did on Summer Break". But, FAWM is great for forcing re-inventing the wheel.
Happy platinum Fawmiversary!!! 🎉🎆🎇
Happy FAWM Jinx, may it be joyful and fruitful! 🎉
Willkommen zurück – happy FAWMing!
YAY! So happy to see you, hope you can have a Great FAWM!
Thank you for your interest in Songwriting Monthly. I look forward to hearing from you!
Happy FAWMing!!
🍻𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀! 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆. 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗙𝗔𝗪𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗴! Class of 2006 rules!
"And right now, on the cusp of my umpteenth FAWM, I have no idea how to write a song." I feel exactly the same way. No interest in LeArNiNg HoW tO wRiTe because that would spoil the mystery and ruin the delight in discovery.