Saturday Summary, October 1, 2011

October!  The weather has finally decided to leave summer behind (good riddance!) and fall is here ... though the way our past couple of autumns have gone, winter will start next week.  (Of course, with the onset of winter, that means more time cooped up inside, which means more being creative ... so it's not all a bad thing.)

Music -- I spent this entire week working on a couple of piano pieces.  Two are originals I wrote some years ago, but which needed modifying, so I modified them.  The other is an arrangement of O Come, O Come Emmanuel.  I'm hoping to throw together one more Christmas arrangement this weekend and send them off to Lorenz for consideration for their Church Pianist magazine.  I've got several coming out in that publication over the next several months ... but not in the Christmas issue, a matter I hope to rectify with these pieces.

With the start of a new month, I suppose I ought to update my totals for the year again -- remember the number crossed out was my original goal, and the number beside it is how many I have left to reach that goal ...

• Handbell pieces -- 20 5
• Piano pieces -- 20  10
• Choral pieces -10  9
• String pieces --  4  0
• Band pieces -- 2
• Other instrumental pieces -- 4
• GRAND TOTAL FOR 2011 -- 60 30

Of those, 12 of the handbell pieces and 6 of the piano pieces have already been accepted for publication.  Of course, I'm at 50% of my year-long goal with 75% of the year already gone, so that's not quite where I'd like to be ... but I'm working on remedying that, or at least making it a little less unbalanced.

Writing -- Later this week I'm planning on going back through my returned copies of Fealty and Fire and making corrections and changes.  I've still got two readers I'm waiting on (and a third who will get her copy Tuesday -- she's fast on getting back with me, though) and then the editing will begin again in earnest.  So far I haven't had many comments overall -- just mainly corrections.  Still, to get it all around and ready for release in December is going to be a major undertaking, even with very little to change and rewrite.

Publishing -- I really can't think of anything new.  I think all the publishers are in that nice inter-release period where the fall release is done, and they don't have to start worrying too much about the spring release for another couple of weeks.  I'll just consider no news good news and go on from there.


That's all from here.  I've got a full day of composing and autumn-enjoying ahead of me.  I wish you all a fantastic Saturday, and we'll see you back here Wednesday.