Writing and working

[prusik]

First off, it's a little late but I want to wish everyone doing NaNoWriMo good luck. I hope everyone gets what they want out of it. It seems like everyone I know who writes has decided to do it this year. I am not, because I'm not writing a novel. I'm in the midst of 5 different short stories though so I'm still writing every day.

Sometimes, you just need someone to tell you that it's possible. Bouyed by the VP instructors and fellow VPX students, I actually managed to write every day so far despite the fact that work has gone insane. I have no kids, so writing while also putting in 11+ hour work days is not impossible. (I even managed to go climbing once!) "Running and Falling", which I started right before VP, is now in good enough shape that I sent it to Critters to see what they think.

I've been rewriting "Finding Home", my former VP Reunion story, all week. My first draft was around 3900. It's now around 3250 and more stuff happens in it. This is why no one, but me, reads my first drafts. I thought I had hit that point where I've run out of things I know to fix last night. However, this morning, I realized that my main character has a cell phone. This actually fixes a few story problems. Then I will take another crack at "Looking Out for the Resistance", my VP submission.

For my next trick, I'm going to see if I can still write everyday when not only has work gone insane, but Back Bay Chorale, the chorus I sing with, has rehearsals on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights this week to prepare for our concert this Friday. This is what I get for thinking, "When am I ever going to have another chance to sing the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610?"

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[athenais.livejournal.com]

This is what I get for thinking, "When am I ever going to have another chance to sing the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610?"

But, but, but...that's a legit question! I'd totally have signed up, too.

[prusik.livejournal.com]

We're also doing the Bach St. Matthew Passion in March and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms in May. So it was irresistable.

I pulled a Linda and got up very early to write this morning. I think this may have to be my modus operandi this week.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Oh good choice. The St. Matthew Passion is magnificent. I sang the Chichester Psalms in college, I enjoyed that a lot.

I honor you early risers (that's how Cal does her writing) but I can't think until I've been up at least an hour. Last night I stayed up until 2am writing, though, which is how I get it done.

[dfable.livejournal.com]

So I googled Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 and am impressed. Music that hasn't changed in 1500 years, put me down for a cd. I'll play it after I listen to Folk Lute Of Antolia. Talk about head banging! Oh is there a way to put some of your music on line, a sample?

[prusik.livejournal.com]

Do you actually want a CD of us singing this? (We actually record our concerts and sell CDs.) If so, let me know and we'll see if I remember to order a CD when the time comes.

I found some snippets of the folk lute music of Anatolia on the web. Pretty neat stuff.

As for samples, the chorus has a web site with a few samples: Back Bay Chorale (http://www.backbaychorale.org/). I keep flirting with the idea of setting up a web site of my own, but I haven't yet.