Well, The RPM challenge is over, and while I didn’t complete it in time I feel it was definitely worth while attempting it because I have written a lot of new material that I otherwise would not have.
Next year, I think I would do a few things differently to make sure I finished in time.
Not starting a week late. I started a week late this time, because I heard of the RPM for the first time a week into February.
Not spend so long on songwriting. I spent so long writing, demoing, then rejecting songs, that I planned to do most of my proper recording and mixing in the last few days. This backfired terribly when I got the stupid flu and spent the last few days lying on the couch feeling like death microwaved on high for 30 seconds.
Take it more seriously. Probably the biggest reason I didn’t finish, is simply the fact that I didn’t make it my number 1 priority. If I had taken it more seriously, I would have been forcibly removing visitors from my home – family or not, recording on those last few days no matter how sick I felt, and recording in the evenings without worrying about annoying the neighbors.
I had actually been planning on having a proper album finished by June, so this was good motivation to get some more material together, and I now have a few new songs that I’m quite keen on (and quite a few I’m not!).
[Actually, if I had really low standards I could just send in ten demo's I've done, but nah. Not gonna happen 
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Thats good that you still have your standards
But is there any chance of a sneak preview, maybe what you think is the best work of the month or maybe pick a single song and post-mortem it? You liked this, like that, but not x y or z. Want to chance such and such… could be interesting to see how a song changes from a demo to the ‘production’ version.
I’m not gonna postmortem single songs… You know why? Cos they’re not dead yet!
Maybe 6 months after releasing my album I’ll do that
I keep seeing your comments on the stereo bus, and you seem to be doing some cool things (and writing coherently about them), so I just subscribed to yer feed.
Cheers Keith! Coincidently I subscribed to your blog this week thanks to The StereoBus