off my stride (540 words)

[ritaxis]

Too damned much writing about writing and not enough writing. Part of the reason is that I'm sort of tangled up in a stretch where there has to be a lot of information passed, and I'm self-conscious about it since that's kind of what I was talking about in the last post, in a way.

I'm going to clean for a while. I never got my room clean before, but I think I'm going to do stuff in the downstairs.

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[nycshelly.livejournal.com]

Been there, did my own share of cat vacuuming and finally just plowed through those scenes. So just write them. They can be messy. You can fix them later. I had a few days off over the last couple of weeks and now I'm 4 scenes from completing the WIP. I'm a burst writer, but at some point, I just had to sit and write. And if I, the grand procrastinator, can do it, anyone can. :)

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I'm just pecking at it. 500 words or so at a time until it gets better. Though today it looks to be closer to a thousand, which is the minimum I'm happy with. I want to do 2000, but it hardly ever happens.

Sometimes what I'm doing now feels like when I have had an extremely detailed narrative dream and I can't remember it in the morning. Except I actually can. Just not perfectly.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Speaking of sacred harp, do you ever go to the Santa Cruz shape-note group? Seeing your sacred-harp mentions makes me wonder whether perhaps you are (1) someone who does go to the local group and who I know by sight but who I hadn't connected with the name before, or (2) someone who might be interested in it but hadn't known it existed. Anyway, if #2, you can see a blurb about it if you scroll down this Community Music School page, but for this month only they're having a party on the 14th instead of meeting on the first and third Tuesdays.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I'm #2. The only time I ever sang in a Sacred Harp chorus was as a child at the Berkeley Folk Festival, the same one where I saw ALmeda Riddle.

Thank you -- Tuesdays are problematic for me, as I often (as today) have to work at the Bingo fundraiser for my daughter's band.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

It does always meet on Tuesdays, except that every August Santa Cruz hosts the Northern California regional convention on a Sunday, sometimes proceeded by a singing school the day before.

If you ever do have the time/inclination, I'll note that the group is very Santa Cruz-ish in every way -- good-humored folkies and the like.