You write songs? Where you playing at Saturday night? Why not?
Remember Graffiti? It used to market itself as "the Greenwich Village Scene of Pittsburgh." Do you even know about the Greenwich Village scene? If you don't you should.
Yes. Even the legendary voices of the Greenwich Village scene passed a hat and split the proceeds. And they came out to support each other. Not everyone got famous. Not everyone had a hit record. But they made something happen.
Genius emerges from community.
So if you write songs, get off your butt and get out and play.