Writing new songs.

I've been playing the drums since I was 17 or so, I've also always had a bunch of guitars and bass - a lot of other instruments mostly so any of my friends would have something to play on.  Recently I took up guitar and singing more seriously. I've had opportunity to play at several open mics in the area and even teamed up with some other musicians (as drummer) to play real gigs. So far all the songs I've learned to sing are covers, and the musicians around me seem annoyed with this fact.  Everyone else is making their own songs and they sound great but I think they're simpler than doing covers because playing other people's songs (I'm not getting paid for playing covers at open mics btw) expands musical ability. I've tried writing my own songs, the first one was a big hit but I had a lot of help and it was funny. The song I'm working to write now, I showed a friend a draft and sang it and he didn't really have anything good to say.  I wonder if there's some trick to this.

A post to post

If I had it in me to believe it was possible I would make a resolution to start posting to this blog everyday. Instead I will post more often.