Well, it's been a very interesting week here, primarily because I started being a full-time stay-at-home-Dad on Tuesday. I've discovered just how wonderful and productive nap times can really be ...
Music -- I've worked a little bit on so many different things that I can't even remember them all. I know I worked a bit on some twelve-bell pieces, a much larger commissioned piece, a handbell solo, two piano pieces, and another three octave original composition. I got one or two of those finished (or at least close to finished), and am really hoping that I have time in the coming weeks to get some of the others finished up and sent off into the world.
Writing -- I've actually been successful with my writing this week (though I did forget on two different days and, to make up for it, wrote 3,000 words the following day instead of the usual 1,000), and have pushed ahead quite a bit in terms of figuring out the rest of this whole Sadonian Chronicles series I'm working on. I still hold out hope that some of the actual writing of the novels themselves will start taking place later this year.
Publishing -- I sent a couple of pieces out into the world this week -- one is a commission I finished up for a church about six or eight months ago and am still trying to find a home for (though it's for simultaneous bell, chime, and children's bell choirs, plus assorted percussion), and the other is a rather tricky transcription of Debussy's Clair de Lune for 5-7 octaves of bells that I had finished here, just hadn't sent it off anywhere. Hopefully, though, I'll have several other pieces to send out later this week.
That's it from here. As I write this, my son is asleep in the next room, giving me one of these blissful work times. If he keeps this up, hopefully my Saturday Summaries will continue to be chock-full of good news. (And if they're not, well ... he's worth it.)
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