The slug lies dormant once more
Jan. 14th, 2009 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
babarnettMy schedule got thrown off a little today, courtesy of sleeping in a touch later than I should have and working a piano lesson into the routine. Nonetheless, I successfully told the slug where to shove it.
Reading: A short yet interesting chapter of Musicophilia. Tomorrow, when I have a little more time to read than I did today, I'm hoping to plow through the rest of the book's second section, which will put me at the halfway-through mark.
Exercising: 20 minutes on the elliptical strider again, though at a more vigorous pace than yesterday's leisurely, migraine-induced pace.
Music Stuff: Whole lot of that today. I started piano lessons with a friend of mine. My mother teaches piano, and I took a few lessons from her when I was young, but it was one of those shoemaker's daughter situations where that fell by the wayside since the students who actually paid her understandably took priority in scheduling. I'm mostly self-taught as a result, so my technique is kind of crap. I've been wanting to remedy that and kept talking about lessons, so AsYouKnowBob, in his infinite awesomeness, paid for my first 5 lessons as a Christmas gift.
On the vocal front, I had church choir rehearsal tonight, and I even snuck in some practicing before dinner. The piano lesson must have put me in a singing mood.
Writing: Finally finished the first scene of chapter 2. Man, that took way too long. The next scene, which I started working on today, shouldn't be nearly as painful to get through, though. The first scene had to be almost entirely rewritten from scratch because of the plot level changes I've made to the novel, but those changes don't affect the second scene to such an extent, so I can recycle most of what's already there. That, and I absolutely LOVE writing for the POV character in this scene. I think that love bleeds through onto the page, because his scenes always seem to draw better writing out of me.
Reading: A short yet interesting chapter of Musicophilia. Tomorrow, when I have a little more time to read than I did today, I'm hoping to plow through the rest of the book's second section, which will put me at the halfway-through mark.
Exercising: 20 minutes on the elliptical strider again, though at a more vigorous pace than yesterday's leisurely, migraine-induced pace.
Music Stuff: Whole lot of that today. I started piano lessons with a friend of mine. My mother teaches piano, and I took a few lessons from her when I was young, but it was one of those shoemaker's daughter situations where that fell by the wayside since the students who actually paid her understandably took priority in scheduling. I'm mostly self-taught as a result, so my technique is kind of crap. I've been wanting to remedy that and kept talking about lessons, so AsYouKnowBob, in his infinite awesomeness, paid for my first 5 lessons as a Christmas gift.
On the vocal front, I had church choir rehearsal tonight, and I even snuck in some practicing before dinner. The piano lesson must have put me in a singing mood.
Writing: Finally finished the first scene of chapter 2. Man, that took way too long. The next scene, which I started working on today, shouldn't be nearly as painful to get through, though. The first scene had to be almost entirely rewritten from scratch because of the plot level changes I've made to the novel, but those changes don't affect the second scene to such an extent, so I can recycle most of what's already there. That, and I absolutely LOVE writing for the POV character in this scene. I think that love bleeds through onto the page, because his scenes always seem to draw better writing out of me.
