Let's begin again
(revised 1/26/09. Original introductions and explanations here)
What you are reading now:
Between April 11, 1998 and January 5, 2001 I wrote 1,001 lyrics over the course of 1,001 consecutive days. My goal was to write a song each day, but when I missed a day I would make it up later. I'm now posting these songs in the order I wrote them. Each post title includes the numerical order of the song and the date for which it was written. My goal is to post a song every day, a goal I haven't attained yet (you'd think writing them would be the hard part).
What I am writing now:
I took a break of somewhat over four years from daily songwriting and for the most part from writing lyrics altogether. On May 4, 2005 I started the second song of the day project with a goal of writing 10,000 consecutive songs. When I'm done publishing the original project I'll start publishing those.
Since that's going to be a while, to provide a touchstone to my ongoing writing, on Mondays I try to post a short graphical status report on the current songwriting project that looks like this:
926 : 1 ?
Explanation
: These Icons indicate if I'm running a song backlog and if so how much.
926: Number of songs written in the current project
1: Number of songs written consecutively (resets whenever I miss a day)
?: links to this explanation.
Icon Guide
Songs are current. There is no backlog of work to do.
Songs are less than a week behind schedule
Songs are between one week and a month behind schedule
Songs are between a month and three months behind schedule.
Songs are more than three months behind schedule.
What you are reading now:
Between April 11, 1998 and January 5, 2001 I wrote 1,001 lyrics over the course of 1,001 consecutive days. My goal was to write a song each day, but when I missed a day I would make it up later. I'm now posting these songs in the order I wrote them. Each post title includes the numerical order of the song and the date for which it was written. My goal is to post a song every day, a goal I haven't attained yet (you'd think writing them would be the hard part).
What I am writing now:
I took a break of somewhat over four years from daily songwriting and for the most part from writing lyrics altogether. On May 4, 2005 I started the second song of the day project with a goal of writing 10,000 consecutive songs. When I'm done publishing the original project I'll start publishing those.
Since that's going to be a while, to provide a touchstone to my ongoing writing, on Mondays I try to post a short graphical status report on the current songwriting project that looks like this:
926 : 1 ?Explanation
: These Icons indicate if I'm running a song backlog and if so how much.926: Number of songs written in the current project
1: Number of songs written consecutively (resets whenever I miss a day)
?: links to this explanation.
Icon Guide
Songs are current. There is no backlog of work to do.
Songs are less than a week behind schedule
Songs are between one week and a month behind schedule
Songs are between a month and three months behind schedule.
Songs are more than three months behind schedule.
posted by scrivener at 9:49 AM
2 Comments:
Bross:
You never explained the origin of "Cathedral", or did I misinterpret the link.
Of course, I always think of Raymond Carver.
Brood
Regarding the question about "Cathedral", this post is an explanation of the Song of the Day project, which is the source of all the songs posted in this blog - but doesn't discuss the origin of any individual song. Questions or comments about songs may be posted in the particular song's thread. Frequently, though, the facts about the song "Cathedral" may generally hold true - I no longer remember the thoughts that led into writing this song.
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