Over the years, I've written pretty extensively here about my interest in home recording. (It was also a door into other DIY activities, such as blogging, and it's no coincidence that Blogcritics' own Eric Olsen, Glenn Reynolds of An Army of Davids fame, and several other prominent bloggers also have a background in this area.) But home recording means generating material to record: songs take a fair amount of work to develop properly and nurture to their conclusion; it's easy to get stuck, and wind up staring at recording deck or computer monitor and doing nothing.
Karl Coryat, a consulting editor at Bass Player magazine, and the author of The Guerrilla Recording Handbook, and his co-author, Nicholas Dobson, have co-written a really fun book on breaking that logjam. Called The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook, it catalogs a whole host of methods of overcoming musical writer's block, whether you're writing your first song, or your 50th.
I interviewed them recently, and it made for an equally enjoyable 20-minute podcast. You can listen to a streaming file, or download and subscribe via iTunes. Note that in both cases, no iPod is required; virtually any PC can play an MP3 file.
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