Some say a mountain-top view of the beach at sunset is God’s point of view. I say creating characters for NaNoWriMo comes close.
Okay. Now that I see this, maybe not even close!
Category: Creativity
Starting today I’m institute One More. The exception is food. Less is more there.
Find something of beauty, a moment more enjoy.
When I feel I’m done with my piano playing for the day, one more, something new. Today I pulled out my Uke song book and played Imagine as I improvised the bass chords.
I was ready to pop off the stationary bike: beat yesterday’s time by a bit more.
Picking up rubbish: spend one more minute. Take one more step.
In a room, spend one more chore or minute on it.
See what I mean?
I don’t know if it will work. But a year and a half years ago, I played 15 minutes on the piano. Now I’m up to 40-60 minutes and enjoying it.
Commercials are everywhere. Commercial timing can be used to learn something.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
Holding up the princess dress with the empire-waist, she admired the illusion. She could be the empress. But there on the wall, the hand print. Blood?
She remembered the bare foot imprint in the flower garden. They were trying to impress her with their daring, trying to scare her.
It took her five minutes to dress and sweep her hair into the crown. She could impress, too.
Still biding her time, she bagged the crown and donned her long raincoat. She and the magician had a secret. Two more months.
Leaning against the tree, she felt the universe of power as she watched the interloper being eaten. The dragon wasn’t impressed. Still he winked. The empress was impressed.
It worked! By the way, the little balls on either side of the mouse was how much I had to waste until they matched.
I do my Duo while on my stationary bike during the afternoon news.
Well, there’s the hobby progress. Now if I could figure out how to do more on the weekends.
For next year, I hope I start Christmas music before Halloween. I’d like to be more proficient by this point. And I hope I know those last few songs with very little brush up time.
Oh, in case you need to see how gentle goals help:ย
I started back to piano last October. The goal: sit and play as long as it’s fun, then move on to something else. At first, I’d only play a song, or five minutes. Today I’ve clocked an hour and a half! And it’s still fun! And I’m not hurting as much as I used to.
And a new writing goal: 500 words a day starting today. And work 4 scenes a day on Folie ร Plusieurs. But TrackBear is being a BEAR! So I need to find another way to keep track. I did get 637 words in a zoom sprint with Yvensong.
How was your Friday finale?
The other socks are sitting quietly until I can get back in the groove.
With NaNo over I’ve made up my mind to write at least 800 words a day to keep the writing muscle activated.๐ค
With lots of sight reading of Christmas songs, I ran across this fun ditty. It’s being added to Lucy and Linus, and When Christmas Comes to Town songs to learn this season.
Only three more days of NaNo. I need 1,200 words tonight to be on track. It has been such an ordeal this time. It has been a rollercoaster of emotions. I’ll be glad to see December!
I’m trying to learn a couple Christmas songs. I’ve always wanted to play Lucy and Linus and now I’m also challenged by the song in Polar Express
I pulled out all the Christmas songs to play with.
The only knitting making progress are my experimental slipper socks.
No finishing here. Just cuties.
Well, back to work. Words to go before I sleep…
I mentioned yesterday how NaNoWriMo seems the time for math and charts. Everyone knows to reach 50,000 words in 30 days, you write 1,667 words a day. But get ahead or behind, one must ‘math’ it out.
I use tons of junk mail envelopes and other scrap paper figuring out how to get to goals hourly, daily, weekly. When the brain needs to make sure it’s right, pull out the calculator. As if ‘adds’, ‘subtracts’, ‘timesies’, ‘dividing’, and ratios, and “Hey, look a prime!” aren’t enough. Then I run over to TrackBear and many times a day update my latest word count to find out if I ‘bear down’ can I reach my goal? And they offer a cool chart to prove it.
This year (and this is subject to change at any minute) cooking and housework call my attention that I normally seem to ignore.
But naps and dream times bring my characters alive or bring questions.
This morning I woke to the title of this post. Folie ร Plusieurs, the Musical.
How? I askedย the muses, mermaids can’t sing or dance except in cartoons. ADHD mind now sings, “Look at this stuff….” And tightening the lasso on the muse I bring back the line of questions.
Are there animals with gills and lungs? Do any of those animals make noise? Who can do the tap dance?
This story started with males I was sure were going to be the antagonists. Nope, not so much. The next three a mermaid, a selkie, a melusine, the two tail finned mermaid ala Starbucks.
The problem with the mermaid, um, hard to run to safety on land if even a tear of moisture creates said tail fin.
Selkies are rather pretty, though noisy, seals. Maybe a pad around on stage but singing voice needs help.
The melusine can move around due to the two tail fins and wings. But she’s too powerful for stage.
Then comes the never ending research. I hope you can see the Tubes I found. They aren’t showing up on this writing page. If not maybe research the fishy questions above. Eye opening! The little fish can supply the tap dancing sounds. The other voices plus a whale or two may supply tunes. Musical? Maybe?๐๐คฃ๐ฅด (And yes, I count these words!)
For the knitting, I’ll just use last week’s pic as I’ve done very little knitting.
I know my life might seem boring to others, but this blog is the place where I talk about the things I enjoy.
Would I love to travel or go to amusement parks? You bet. But my life seems to be on a different path. I find my joy where I live.
Learning something new gives me joy. Bring creative expresses my joy. And also do arts like drawing and diamond painting, music, like piano and my other recent pursuits, writing the story popping up in my head brings me joy. Yarning is delightful.
My favorite is visiting with family and friends. But that doesn’t happen as often as I’d like still it’s the icing on the enjoyment cake.
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