RPM

The RPM Challenge begins on February 1, and I am cringing.

A musical version of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), musicians will be "encouraged" to produce an entire album in just one month. Their rules are to write and record 10 songs / 35 minutes worth of original material during the 29 days of February.

Much like the NaNoWriMo, the process emphasises speed of completion rather than quality or craftsmanship - and that's no reason to undertake the task. Write 10 songs in a month? No problem. Write 10 good songs? Yikes. Only MAGNA could crank out that many decent songs in 4 weeks, but it would require spending over 80 hours a week to do it (never mind recording it properly), and MAGNA don't write for nobody but themselves!