Oh man you guys oh man
Mar. 6th, 2011 06:39 pmI've been absent due to rl things picking up, but I'm still going to try and post something every Sunday! (Today you get me blathering about TEF writing and more tunage; I can tell you're so excited.)
Confession! After bitching about what basically amounted to a (hellish) year off from writing, I pretty much didn't do any for most of the months of January and February (yes, even despite finishing up ch10a for beta). I finally picked TEF back up again at the beginning of last week, but then fizzled out by Thursday because I haven't been getting enough sleep. This is a chronic problem of mine with no legitimate medical reason; I'm pretty much fully to blame for inflicting sleep deprivation on myself.
Anyway, for those three days I did manage to fit in 45 min of writing time each morning. It wasn't as hard as I expected, but I was taken aback at how dismal my output was. At my peak (in 2009) my morning writing sessions used to yield at least a page per hour, including minor editing work. This past week I only cranked out roughly 400-500 words per day, which left me with not quite two pages' worth of work to show for three mornings. It's frustrating only in the sense that I know I used to be more productive during these sessions, but at the same time I recognize I am talking about a habit I fell out of for a year and in truth 400-500 words a morning is nothing to sneeze at.
In lieu of more boring news about my writing habits,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
philosophicwax, that veritable Goddess among us mortals, posted a fascinating and wonderfully thought-out entry featuring a smattering of recommendations from her own PpG!playlist. And you wonder why I sing her praises so.
Philly's post reminded me of one song in particular that I hadn't listened to in a long time, and, subsequently, an album I haven't played in even longer. I had recced Good Man by Third Eye Blind ages ago (none of the links in that post work anymore, sorry, perhaps I'll re-upload later) as one of my quintessential Reds pieces, and yet for the past couple of years it received so little play on my end that I'd pretty much forgotten how central it was to my interpretation of the Reds.
That led to me digging out my copy of Out of the Vein a week ago, which in turn led to me being reminded of a couple of my other favorite songs on the album, which in turn led to me discovering a song each for the Blues and the Greens, which is, in turn, leading me to share those songs with you all in this post. (And blather about 3EB for a bit.)
( 3EB used to be one of my favorite bands. )
That was probably more nerdy soliloquizing than you needed to be subjected to. OH WELL.
Confession! After bitching about what basically amounted to a (hellish) year off from writing, I pretty much didn't do any for most of the months of January and February (yes, even despite finishing up ch10a for beta). I finally picked TEF back up again at the beginning of last week, but then fizzled out by Thursday because I haven't been getting enough sleep. This is a chronic problem of mine with no legitimate medical reason; I'm pretty much fully to blame for inflicting sleep deprivation on myself.
Anyway, for those three days I did manage to fit in 45 min of writing time each morning. It wasn't as hard as I expected, but I was taken aback at how dismal my output was. At my peak (in 2009) my morning writing sessions used to yield at least a page per hour, including minor editing work. This past week I only cranked out roughly 400-500 words per day, which left me with not quite two pages' worth of work to show for three mornings. It's frustrating only in the sense that I know I used to be more productive during these sessions, but at the same time I recognize I am talking about a habit I fell out of for a year and in truth 400-500 words a morning is nothing to sneeze at.
In lieu of more boring news about my writing habits,
philosophicwax, that veritable Goddess among us mortals, posted a fascinating and wonderfully thought-out entry featuring a smattering of recommendations from her own PpG!playlist. And you wonder why I sing her praises so.Philly's post reminded me of one song in particular that I hadn't listened to in a long time, and, subsequently, an album I haven't played in even longer. I had recced Good Man by Third Eye Blind ages ago (none of the links in that post work anymore, sorry, perhaps I'll re-upload later) as one of my quintessential Reds pieces, and yet for the past couple of years it received so little play on my end that I'd pretty much forgotten how central it was to my interpretation of the Reds.
That led to me digging out my copy of Out of the Vein a week ago, which in turn led to me being reminded of a couple of my other favorite songs on the album, which in turn led to me discovering a song each for the Blues and the Greens, which is, in turn, leading me to share those songs with you all in this post. (And blather about 3EB for a bit.)
( 3EB used to be one of my favorite bands. )
That was probably more nerdy soliloquizing than you needed to be subjected to. OH WELL.
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