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.
Happy early Easter! Hopefully this Holy Week has been a blessed experience for you, and not just an endless torment of chocolate bunny and Cadbury egg denial. For me, it was a productive week in the creativity department, though not in the usual ways. It was also rather daunting, as at the end of this week looms not only a Good Friday service but two Easter morning services, all of them played on organ, which, as much as I like the instrument, is not the one I'm most comfortable with. If they could just figure out how to put a stupid sustain pedal on the organ, it would be so much easier.
A word before we get in to the update. I don't know why, but last night, I signed up for ... (sigh) ... twitter. I can't say yet how much I'll use it or to what end, but if you're the sort that tweets, feel free to follow me on twitter, @jasonwkrug.
Now, on to the important stuff...
Music -- Um, nothing happened here. That being said, I did focus all my time and attention this week on my writing, with the express knowledge that this coming week was going to be a frantic attempt to get a contest entry finished for the Donald Davidson Composition Contest, for which the deadline is Monday, May 2. So yes, I should have good music news to report next week.
Writing -- I spent nearly every spare working minute this week going over the text of my novel The Coming of the Heroes and making sure it was ready to be sent to CreateSpace for publication. Unlike getting a novel published by a traditional publisher, I have to be my own typesetter and proofreader, which was really what I spent the week doing. I think I've now got all the content in the novel that needs put in there, all the punctuation and spelling is correct, and it's ready to go. Of course, just to be on the safe side, I'm having my wife take a look over it, as well. I hope to have some good news on this front again in a couple of weeks.
Publishing -- I did receive one rejection from Lorenz on a couple of my choral pieces, so I sent them back out into the world again. The true fun of this week were the audio files of some of my newest pieces showing up on various publisher and retailer websites. If you head over to the "Compositions" tab up top, I'll be posting audio files soon for some of my newest pieces: Advent Triptych, The Boar's Head Carol, On This Day Earth Shall Ring, and Sarabande. There will be more audio following soon, as well. So head on over and take a listen!
That's really it from here for this week. Once I get those audio files uploaded, I'm off to work on some composing. Until next time, have a great weekend, a blessed Easter, and a creative week!
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