Arguably the toughest struggle a songwriter faces has nothing to do with booking a show, promoting a show, social media or even a recording contract. Just going through the songwriting process of taking a melody from an idea to something they're willing to share, if only at a diver bar open-mic or Facebook (the social media equivalent of a dive bar), can be agonizing and drives many to give up before they've even technically tried. Of course like every other psychological phenomenon/quirk these days, it's a spectrum disorder.
I know one experimental artist who was handed a fairly long letter during a live set pleading with him to give up and cursing the unknown name of whoever encouraged him to do anything creative. He had since framed the letter and hangs it on his wall for inspiration whenever he feels like dissolving his project. On the other hand, I also know a songwriter who often posts unfinished songs on SoundCloud and if the right person says the wrong thing about one of them, will almost certainly dive into a two week ecstasy binge. My guess would be that most aspiring songwriters fall a bit off-center towards the latter of these two extremes. For those (and others) there is a new service called AudioKite which employs qualified listeners to critique songs that are either still works in progress or that you're generally uncertain about.
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