I'm so grateful this ended up not being a bonkers week at work, because a bonkers week at work plus ALL THE PROCHOIR RECORDINGS, plus technical issues with this week's hymn file for my church gig, plus having 2 days to write the first huge scene of the theatre camp musical, plus two 2-hour camp meetings, plus 1 day to integrate suggested edits into ( Read more... )

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I thought it would be impossible to over-schedule myself working from home at a time that live choral singing can't happen.

HA.

Guess who's managed it?

This week, I get to...

• Start re-drafting the musical script based on the cast list that will be set in the next couple of days
• Audiorecord myself singing the sop part of Commissioned Choral Work A ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago, in response to one of my Comic-Con reports about an amazing YA fantasy writer's panel, gelsey mentioned that she particularly loved one of the panelists, Maggie Stiefvater, and recommended her novel "The Scorpio Races" as a good place to start. I added it to my wish list and received it for my birthday. It took me a little bit to ( Read more... )

Well, the news has been... batshit. I know y'all have seen it and are being affected by it. I myself did little besides fret over the weekend. Well, apart from joining sharebears and solarwind with Mr. 42 for a virtual movie night to watch Knives Out, which was the most fabulous dynamite-ensemble-cast murder mystery I've seen since Gosford Park, perhaps even better ( Read more... )

So I was supposed to have the draft of the first song for our Zoom musical for theatre camp done on Friday. As of Friday, I had two lines. As of Saturday, I had three lines, and I wasn't sold on the third line. I finally got the lead-in and the first verses posted to the share on Sunday. I'd feel worse about this, but it is now done, I like it, and ( Read more... )

It's actually been a remarkable day on Social Media. I ended up having a pretty cool and thoughtful conversation with an o-fic author I adore and a fanfic author I adore, so that was freaking awesome.

In between spates of work and doggo wrangling, got a clean and not wholly terrible take of the virtul choir piece and have uploaded it to the site. ( Read more... )

Having a much nicer-than-yesterday day today, which in no small part is thanks to those of you who kindly talked me through untangling some razor wire feels. So yeah, in a better-rested, more evenly-keeled place today, and grateful for it, and for you.


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So I seem to have volunteered to help write a musical. A 30-minute Zoom musical for kids ages 12~18 for a church theatre camp. I pitched an idea, came up with a concept and characters, and started writing the first scene up to the first song. This week, I'll write the first song (words only!) and integrate comments. No idea what will come of this, ( Read more... )

I was in a positively foul mood pretty much all day yesterday, so you're welcome for not posting then.

The reason for the foul mood started with an infuriating episode on morning walkies.

( Bah. )