I fought the novel and the novel won
Dec. 17th, 2009 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
babarnettI was going to try slogging through the rest of that short story I had started, but during my trainride writing time these past two days, what started out as me jotting down one quick note about my next novel chapter turned into me jotting down revision notes for the next 20 minutes until I was at my stop. I was so deep into brainstorming mode today that I almost missed my stop.
I get the hint, Brain. You want to work on the novel. We can do that. No one's tossing any short story deadlines in my direction, so we might as well go where the inspiration is.
On a completely different note...
Musical Christmas Wackiness
Years of choral singing has meant that, by this point in December, I'm usually pretty damn sick of most Christmas music because I've been working on it since September. So out of a need to find appropriate tree trimming accompaniment that isn't yet another boring rendition of the same old song, AsYouKnowBob and I look for Christmas albums of the offbeat-enough-that-you-probably-won't-hear-it-on-those-radio-stations-that-start-playing-Christmas-music-nonstop-in-November variety. Listening to one of those albums has put me in the mood to spread the love. So I bring you the first of my Musical Christmas Wackiness offerings: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' Jingle All the Way. It's Christmas music. With Tuvan throat singing. And banjo. It is made of awesome.
I get the hint, Brain. You want to work on the novel. We can do that. No one's tossing any short story deadlines in my direction, so we might as well go where the inspiration is.
On a completely different note...
Musical Christmas Wackiness
Years of choral singing has meant that, by this point in December, I'm usually pretty damn sick of most Christmas music because I've been working on it since September. So out of a need to find appropriate tree trimming accompaniment that isn't yet another boring rendition of the same old song, AsYouKnowBob and I look for Christmas albums of the offbeat-enough-that-you-probably-won't-hear-it-on-those-radio-stations-that-start-playing-Christmas-music-nonstop-in-November variety. Listening to one of those albums has put me in the mood to spread the love. So I bring you the first of my Musical Christmas Wackiness offerings: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' Jingle All the Way. It's Christmas music. With Tuvan throat singing. And banjo. It is made of awesome.
