Nanara

:D

Posted on September 24th, 2009 by Nanara.
Categories: Uncategorized.

(Cloned from LJ)

I’m listening to Vivaldi… I’m sure all snobs would be appalled that such an unrefined person would be listening to Vivaldi… XD *cackle* j/k seriously though..

My dear friend Wraithy *huggles tight* introduced me to a couple of songs/tracks of Vivaldi.. and I’m hooked.. I managed to find a free download… on wikipedia no less for the entire Four Seasons… is it an album or concerto.. or some other word?… anyway… aside from two tracks that remind me first of English aristocracy and the other of the National bank…(It’s called Loyds Bank in the UK apparently)… I really like it.  Its like… emotion in sound.. more so than many of the modern music I listen to… and at points I can close my eyes and the music forms amazing imagery in my head, like there’s one thats like a flock of humming birds and the camera in my head is flying with them as they flit in and out of view, and play tag and just… it’s so playful.  :D I like having a visual mind… I believe the hummingbird song is one of the three summer songs.. There’s an autumn song thats like… a storm… kind of dark and moody.. and I was writing yesterday and it came on and I just stopped, closed my eyes and listened… it just.. jumped inside me and made me listen.

Many of the songs for Four Seasons kind of remind me of waltzing and Masked balls and beautiful flowing dresses and those silly wigs… it’s like… like a collection of movies in sound…
Anyway…

My inspection went ok.  I was just leaving for my appointment when she arrived and she wizzed through and said something the effect that “it looks fine”, I’ll find out about Monday my time when I get the assessment in a letter.. though usually if there’s something wrong she’ll tell me.

And thankfully this time, going slowly preserved my back so I didn’t do in the nerve or anything else, I managed to do my morning walk at a good speed without very much pain.. so it was all good, I get to go to aerobics tonight, which I’m rather relieved about.

I finally managed to finish that blasted scene that I’ve been struggling with… the problem was that in order to make my story seem more real I create characters real enough in my head so that THEY tell me what they’d do and say in a particular scene… and Taelin, my blog story character… is a stubborn bitch… and kept wanting to rumble with my important book series character (which seriously would get him killed.. lol)… in the end bringing in a third party and setting him up in a particular way so that he doesn’t start off angry seems to have made the situation less volatile… I’m still not sure if I like it… and the series character ended up having to play games with him… but… I’m going to let it sit in the corner for a little while before reading through it again over the weekend.  If I still don’t like it I’ll have to go back to the drawing board and figure out how to resolve certain questions with Taelin in another way… it’s a bitch of a way to write and it can cause a lot of friction and frustration on my part to give characters a sort of autonomy in my head, but… the story is better for it in the long run…

I’m going to be editing today.  The blog story has been an interesting distraction, and I’m glad that I finally got that scene remotely done, but I have to get back to editing book one and the synopsis for it.  I wanted to get the Baen submission out by the end of this month… and that’s… like mid next week and I still have about 80 more pages to edit…  I can’t wait to get this blasted edit finished so I can finally put book one aside.  I want to get as much of the blog story done as I can before book one is published… I don’t know when that will be.. but that’s one of my main priorities… and then finish my extra edits to book two so I can give it to my wonderfully patient test readers… and then… perhaps… I can actually start on book three… because that’s very overdue.

Anyway… my breakfast is cooking.. I can smell it from here… probably enough of an update from me. :)

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