Writing up the past
October 3rd 2008 20:07
I’ve spent some of my three days off work in carrying on copying and orchestrating the children’s ‘opera’ I began to write back in 1976 (yes, no mistake about the year).
I wrote a good deal of it into the Sibelius music program a couple of years ago, but got sidetracked and didn’t do any more. Part of the problem, I suspect, was that if I finished what was already in hand (about 25 minutes worth of music) I’d have to go on and finish the work off altogether, and that meant thinking, and being creative.
The original music and words were written in some remarkable burst of creativity: it just flowed along writing itself, as it were, for page after page. But when that petered out, it left me with a story to which I didn’t entirely know the end, and didn’t even know where it was going to go next. And that’s been the case for thirty years. Crikey! Of course it’s helped that Sibelius has turned up in the meantime, meaning I could actually get the music out of the scribbled pencil marks in a manuscript into something that was readable and comprehensible.
So it looks as though now is the time to start thinking about holes in what already exists, and working out where my characters move onto from here. My brain was starting to work this through while lying in bed this morning – which of course meant I had to get up and start writing stuff down before it vanished off into the ether….
Apropos of nothing above, if you heard the word, Hydroxycut, would you think it was related to weight loss? Sounds more like a hairstyle to me!
I wrote a good deal of it into the Sibelius music program a couple of years ago, but got sidetracked and didn’t do any more. Part of the problem, I suspect, was that if I finished what was already in hand (about 25 minutes worth of music) I’d have to go on and finish the work off altogether, and that meant thinking, and being creative.
The original music and words were written in some remarkable burst of creativity: it just flowed along writing itself, as it were, for page after page. But when that petered out, it left me with a story to which I didn’t entirely know the end, and didn’t even know where it was going to go next. And that’s been the case for thirty years. Crikey! Of course it’s helped that Sibelius has turned up in the meantime, meaning I could actually get the music out of the scribbled pencil marks in a manuscript into something that was readable and comprehensible.
So it looks as though now is the time to start thinking about holes in what already exists, and working out where my characters move onto from here. My brain was starting to work this through while lying in bed this morning – which of course meant I had to get up and start writing stuff down before it vanished off into the ether….
Apropos of nothing above, if you heard the word, Hydroxycut, would you think it was related to weight loss? Sounds more like a hairstyle to me!
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