I aim for 5-10 new songs per week.

After watching a recent interview with Ryan Tedder, the front man for One Republic, and one of the biggest songwriters of the last 20 years, talk to Rick Beato on YouTube, I realized how normal it is to write as much as I have.

Looking over my ASCAP catalog of songs I have about 100 registered, 30-40 (mostly instrumental) of which are licensed out to Mtv/Viacom that have been placed on a number of shows, another 40 or so that are completely random and just sitting there, and then another 20 or so that I’ve written these past few weeks for the upcoming singles and albums I’m going to release in the coming weeks as well.

To hear that some professional songwriters go into sessions and write as much as 1,000 songs per year, was a pretty big eye-opener for me. I guess I’m slacking. ;)

To be honest, it made me feel normal.

I can’t tell you have gratifying it is for someone operating at a really high level to share some of the things they do to write a lot of well-known songs millions around the world have streamed over the years.

For a really long time, I felt kind of weird that I’ve written so many songs, because I don’t have many people I know that do it.

It’s kind of weird. But a good “weird.”

So now, I set a goal of doing 5-10 songs per week. And the past few weeks, have been pretty on point with that. Figuring the next album I already have 13-14 done, as well as a follow-up EP with 6 songs already almost complete.

That’s 20 (in just the last few weeks)!

Although, as I write this, I’m just some random indie-artist writing, playing, and producing all my own music in my bedroom just outside of Portland, Oregon it’s good to have a Northstar. Something to point to.

So, thank you Rick Beato and Ryan Tedder for all you shared. For those of you, who are songwriters too, here’s the video I’m talking about that re-inspired me to release a lot of my latest works and get back on the singer/songwriter train. Something I’ve been doing, of and on, since 1988.