Every Saturday, The Creative will feature a brief post about my current creative efforts and how they are progressing. If this doesn't interest you, read no further -- not only will I not be offended, I'll never know.
This has been an interesting week in terms of both my schedule and my creative life. It wasn't exactly a breakthrough week by any means, but I did get a lot done.
Music -- I did compose this week, but didn't actually finish any projects, sadly. I know I'm now hopelessly behind on my year-long goal, but I still hold out hope I can catch up. As for what, specifically, I worked on, I plugged away a bit more at an arrangement of I Vow to Thee, My Country, which I hope to have ready by the time of our church's annual patriotic concert in late June. I also worked on an original piece, which I'm going to say very little about since I plan on entering it in a contest later this year (and since contests like pieces to come to them without knowing who the composer is, I figure I shouldn't say anything anywhere about it, other than that I'm working on one).
I also found out this week that my Shenandoah will be one of the pieces featured at Distinctly Bronze East this year. My Winter's Waltz was played there two years ago, so I'm thrilled to have another piece played at this distinguished event. If you want to find out more about DB, you can check it out on the AGEHR website.
Writing -- Okay, here's where things get crazy. Sometime in the past week or two, I made the decision to get heavily back into my Sadonian Chronicles. I have the first book finished and am in the middle of editing the second book. I've also come to the place where I've realized it's more important to me to have the book out there and in print and available for people to read than it is for me to get a "traditional" publisher and try to sell thousands and thousands of copies. I figure I can self-publish these books myself now, or wait three or five or ten or more years to try to go the agent-publisher route, and even then with no guarantee of publication. I have enough on my plate composing and getting my music published that worrying about querying agents and all the crazy effort that goes along with that just isn't worth it.
So, over the next month or two, I plan on getting the first book, The Coming of the Heroes, in print and available for purchase, while at the same time working on getting the second book rewritten, edited, corrected, and finally in print, hopefully by later this year. It's a huge undertaking, but I'm also planning on devoting the lion's share of the month of July solely to this project, so I'm hopeful that will let me get done everything I want to get done on it. Rest assured, I'll keep you updated here as things progress.
Publishing -- For a change, almost nothing happened here this week. I did send corrections to Doug Wagner for my Fantasia on "Trentham", which won't be available for several more months.
That's the story from here this week. Right now I'm off to work some more on all these projects, which are piling up ever higher. Good luck to you on all your creative endeavors this week, and don't forget, if you're in the Indianapolis area, check out rrindy.com for information about the Raleigh Ringers' concert on June 20!
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