If late is better than never, is early better than on time? Or worse?

I’m asking myself these questions because, for the first time since 2012 I didn’t manage to send my monthly Fee Comes Fourth song to my mailing list on the fourth of the month.

This month it was sent early. On the third of April. It was a mistake. Oops! And after a streak of One Hundred and Eighteen, I’ve failed.

Haven’t I?

Well, of course not. We don’t need to be a slave to these little targets we set ourselves. They are only markers, not something that the people who are wanting to hear our songs (or whatever it is that we have promised to do) are particularly bothered about.

Because though the marker I made missed its mark very slightly, nothing has changed about the commitment or even the reliability that I’ve been trying to achieve.

For almost 10 years I have released a song every month. That’s the important part.

And, as I speak, the plan is to continue to do so indefinitely.

Until Midnight, in fact.