I’ve been focused on my Weekly Songcast project lately and I think it’s time I posted here.

The songcast is doing more for me than I initially thought it would. I have very quickly found myself able to pen lyrics for entire songs, which is something I found almost impossible to do before. The word impossible has been banished from my everyday vocabulary for a while now and it seems that it is having a positive effect on things.

Now it’s not for me to say that just because I now seem able to actually write lyrics that they are very good. I’ll leave that up to everyone else to decide for themselves, but I am happy with the fact that now I relish the chance to sit down and write, because something invariably gets created, so regardless of the content, it is a huge improvement on never even getting started putting pen to paper because of some auto-assumed belief that "I couldn’t write lyrics".

You could say that it is presently my most important project because writing, recording and publishing a new song every week takes quite a large amount of my time and energy and seeing as I have built it on a new platform, namely iWeb and .mac using my Apple PowerBook. I haven’t got to grips with the publicizing side of it yet, so I will be promoting it as much as I can here for a while and I hope I can count on you loyal folks who visit here to pay the songcast a visit and contribute with honest comments. I would really appreciate it.

The songs should be on iTunes also, so you can subscribe to the podcast and have each new song download automatically as they are published.

So in a long-winded way this post is to announce that the PowerBook Producer’s Weekly Songcast has been updated with song number 4, earlier than scheduled. The song is called "I Want to be Right".

Please check it out. I suppose this post counts as a weekly landmark and the point of it, in keeping with the ethos of this site is to stay committed to your dreams. There is an unquantifiable force that gets involved when you commit to something fully. It seems to take over and it really is amazing how quickly you can start to see the emergence of success and achievement.

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: There is nothing better in this world than choosing to do what you love. The choice is always yours to take, no matter what.

The last week has seen somewhat of a personal landmark for me. My intention to start writing songs, (regardless of whether they are any good) has been realized with the birth of my weekly songcast.

I made a promise to myself that I would publish the first song by New Year’s Day and that this time I would actually make good my promise, which I’m glad to say I did.

Why is this landmark? Well I have been a prolific composer of music for several years, but I was never able to come up with lyrics. I still find it incredibly hard, but I think I’ve got over the first hurdle of worrying if my lyrics are good or not and by caring less about that I have found that lyrics are coming more naturally than before. The result is that I have now published two brand-new songs. Not bad for 5 days.

It’s a rather personal project and runs at a bit of a tangent to my recording website. I’m so glad I’ve finally had the nerve to do it. This is another landmark for me. In the past I would have shelved plans to do something like this out of fear of what others may think.

Check out The Songcast here.