Interesting read by Nashville songwriter D. Vincent Williams, originally from Lufkin, Texas, in the latest issue of Hall of Fame magazine - Your Connection To Greatness. I was clueless about this magazine until about five minutes ago, when I found it by accident. Its executive editor is eight-time Emmy Award-winner, Armen Keteyian. Again, I had no idea he was doing this crap.

On to the excerpt:

"How to write a country music hit? We don't really write the hit songs, we just write them down. I heard it said once that in order to write a good song, you have to be willing to write a bad one. And until you write a good song, you'll never write a great song. It took eight years, 500 songs and one plane ticket home to prepare me for the hit. When I heard Gary Levox's voice singing my song, I had to walk out of the studio and regain my composure. Rascal Flatts thought I didn't like it. They had no idea that it was the best version I had ever heard of one of my songs."