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

[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.)