Rainy Monday

[ksmith]

Cold, soon-to-be-snowy Monday. Not a lot of snow expected. Just enough to let us know it's still winter.

ENDGAME progress: still on Ch 8, but did manage about 2200 words over two days. Some of those may get tossed tonight, but that's ok since the chapter's starting to run a little long--I get edgy when they go beyond 21-22 manuscript pages. 17-18 is the optimum, for no other reason than the fact that a first reader criticized the CODE first draft for having overlong chapters. Not even sure anymore that it was a valid criticism, yet it still stuck with me.

My guitar teacher's son was sick, so no lesson this evening. Gives me more time to practice B-minor and other fun chords. At this point, I can muddle through Neil Young's "Down By The River", although things do ball up when I try to sing along with my own playing. Amazing how something that looks so easy can be so difficult.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

Amazing how something that looks so easy can be so difficult.

Kinda like writing that way--it takes a lot of work to make things look effortless. :-)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Kinda like writing that way--it takes a lot of work to make things look effortless. :-)

What gets me is how easy it is to forget how to count. 1-2-3-4.

One good thing about attempting to sing along with my playing was that it highlighted where my strumming was out of whack. Ok, voice goes up here, but I'm still playing a lower chord. Have to change that.

So, singing along is a good thing. I'd have more success patting the top of my head while rubbing my stomach and spinning a hoop around my left ankle, but I keep telling myself it will get better with time. The singing-and-palying, that is.

[janni.livejournal.com]

I'm still working on learning how to rub my stomach without spinning a hoop around my ankle (that is, sing without playing), so I'm impressed by anyone even partway down the road to doing both. :-)

(And no, I haven't figured out how to count yet, either.)

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Sounds overall productive.

Singing with the guitar may need to wait until you have patterns, etc., memorized. It takes time to rub your stomach and pat your head.

You can forget singing with a harp, too.... %^)

[technomage.livejournal.com]

Great news on ENDGAME. Glad to hear you're making progress. (caveman voice invoke) Progress GOOD! (/caveman)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Yeah--rewarded myself with a Buffy Episode. Thought to watch Fool For Love, but grabbed the wrong season and so watched Once More, With Feeling instead. I like that episode more and more with each viewing.

Didn't finish Ch 8 last night, unfortunately--only about 400 words. It's a little tricky--conversation between Niall and Jani, tricky questions, and the need to insert backstory without letting it turn into an infodump. That, and the fact that we're building to a critical moment, so timing is becoming important.

So, even though I brought the iBook to work, did I write over lunch? Nah.