A few ways. 1 - I'm currently unemployed. I was laid off in November. I am looking for jobs and interviewing. But yes, not having to work full-time right now gives me time. 2 - This is my 14th FAWM and I've learned how to write and produce quickly. I use Logic and I know my way around. 3 - I'm not precious with any idea. I usually go with the first thing and make it work. 4- I use autotune for vocals bc it would take way longer to nail a good vocal take. 5 - I try not to spend too much time choosing sounds. I'm sure you have a few goto sounds that you gravitate to and know how to tweak. 6 - I keep of a list of song ideas that I know I'll want to write. And I have a playlist of songs that inspire me. I'll reference those. So I'm never stuck.

Ah crap, sorry about the work. That is hard.

I think I'm mostly like you: I can't sing, but FL Studio can fix that. And throughout the year, if I get an idea, I hum it into a voice recording app.

Fuck, number 5 though. It's a curse.

Hear you on 2 as well. I have been using FL Studio since it was called Fruity Loops, and most of what I can do is because flying the software is now second nature.

But only during Feb. I don’t make music any other time.

You can't sing? Bro, c'mon. I also do not make music except during February. Every single year I get pumped up during FAWM and say, "This year I'm gonna keep writing and actually release songs." But it's yet to happen. I love writing, but I don't like editing and laboring over stuff I do live: singing, guitar playing.

I want to release my best songs from FAWM. There's about 18 or so. I think the songs deserve to be the best they can be. But that process is tiresome. What do you think?

I never work on anything beyond FAWM; life just does that to me. It has always been about the making for me, even when I did it professionally. So I get my dopamine and I'm out until the next Feb.

I still think you should do it, but do an EP of 5 or 6. I think otherwise you are setting yourself up for failing to clear a hurdle that you placed in front of you.

I appreciate the compliment, but you have never heard me without the healing power of Newtone (FL Studio's pitch correcting tool). I am pitchy as fuck.