Sunday word count time!
Unfortunately I hit “The Wall of Shame” again with this amount of words done towards a novel this week.
7896 words
Well at least it is better than last weeks!
Here is how it is broken down.
25th August – 1564 words – not bad considering the week before I hardly wrote a thing per day.
26th August – 867 words – quite low about two pages.
27th August – 2919 words – excellent, I should have more days like this!
28th August – 832 words – hmm, low again.
29th August – 879 words – I am not happy with the way the novel is going if I have to be honest – which I do!
30th August – 835 words – low again, getting bored with this particular novel, so I probably may be like this for some time until this draft is complete then start again for the 6th attempt!
31st August – nothing – well I was getting bored and sometimes it’s best to step away if this happens for a small while and then get back to it at a later date. But I had other ideas I was working on, so this day and the other low days really should have been filled up doing the other novels, not just concentrating on just this one and thinking about my new musical instrument all day!
So the summary is this, quite low word count with quite low quality writing for much of the week!
My excuses are;
There are no excuses for such poor quality word counts and writing other than the fact that I was bored with the one particular story I was working towards! So, I should have moved onto another story that I am writing which captivates me better – which I did not do!
Why?
A new musical instrument entered the house on the 28th August and I fell in love with it. I have never seriously learned an instrument before and this is one where I intend to seriously learn it – I have done approximately fourteen hours of self-taught (via YouTube) lessons since, this averages to three hours per day; plus I am trying to learn music theory and notation, something which I have never done before, trying to learn the names of the notes I am playing and how to read music so that I can eventually write music!
I have always had this desire in my life and it was never as strong as it is now.
I thought if I don’t learn to read and write music now, then I probably never will and so I decided that never is NEVER going to happen!
I write a lot of poetry, but I also write a lot of songs, the songs I rarely post on my blog and my brain has always taunted me with music that should go with the songs – it is getting torturous lately, to say the least, so this is why I have to learn music professionally.
I have always been like this with music, so it is astounding why my brain has to literally send me loopy in order to get me started on taking music more seriously. I suppose I always used my left hand disability as an excuse? “I can’t because my left hand, what if they want me to demonstrate the music”? Whine, whine, and whine!
I started to practise by ear only when I was very small on my grandmother’s piano around the same time I started to learn to read and write – so music has been with me for a very long time, if not longer than writing!
I am excited by learning musical notation because I have learned that each musical instrument has the same basis and therefore once I learn where the notes are for each instrument I have previously played I could in fact learn the same tunes on every instrument. I don’t know musical jargon yet, but I am getting there!
The types of music that are in my head vary in genre from mostly classical, jazz and rock but especially classical! I hear so often these days that “classical music has no future” and I really want to stick my middle finger up at people who say that! I believe it does and if anything it is hearing this regularly which has spurred on my insanity to prove them bloody wrong!
In fact I am under exaggerating here, I am practically getting psychotic about showing people they are wrong about classical music becoming a dying force in the world.
I do have some music still available from my old floppy disks from 2000 that I composed by ear on Cubase with my keyboard, I don’t know if my computer or modern technology can upload it here on the blog successfully, but I think I will try!
I think I will upload my storm music. Or try.
Unfortunately it doesn’t work here, sorry – I tried. MP3 floppy 20yrs old, don’t know how to convert that, can anyone comment below if they know how – please?
Also and I don’t mean to pick on the poor chap, but Henry doesn’t go back to school until the 3rd of September, so perhaps my writing will improve from then onwards? If it doesn’t then I am a rotten mother who uses her kid as an excuse, which I think I am that anyway! Talking of which Henry been trying to get me to become music teacher for him, despite it being the lame leading the lame at the moment, lol. He hasn’t the patience to learn for more than 15 to 30 minutes a day like I do. He is too addicted to Robot Wars, Ryan’s toy review and now WWE wrestling!
I wanted to say that the writing I am clocking up every week is purely towards novels I am working on, it is not research notes, synopsises, plans, blog posts, daily pages like 750words.com or anything else that I might be working on – so I don’t have lazy writer syndrome, if you are interested in seeing just how much I do write per day, let me know in the comments below and I will give you an entire summary of all my work in just one week and one week only!
Anyway, those are my excuses for this week and I am sticking to them!
