Getting used to changes
Jan. 17th, 2008 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaceyIt happened again yesterday... every time I tried to post to LJ I got booted off and Mozilla shut down. I could reply to other people's posts and make any kind of admin changes I liked, but LJ just didn't seem to like my original thoughts. Hmm... is it trying to tell me something?
As I'm writing this I notice the Google adwords on the side of the screen. Someone is advertising Pro Singing Lessons, a 'celebrity method' which 'guarantees a full octave increase'. Yeah right. I think I'd like to point my friend Hilary at it. She's already got three and a half octaves... with four and a half she'd be supersonic. Dammit, I've got two and a half octaves myself... and it's quite enough, thank you.
People keep asking me if I miss singing and I'm never sure what to say. The odd fact is that I don't really, even though I did it professionally for twenty years. I occasionally warble round the house... and at Christmas I was tempted (for the first time ever I should say) to very bad karaoke at the village New Years party... but mostly I sit here at the keyboard and I don't pine to be on the stage.
Of course, let's be honest, as a professional singer I spent more time travelling than singing and I spent more time doing the administrative backup than travelling and singing combined. And, of course, as a tour agent for other performers I'm now hardwired to my keyboard doing just that. Perhaps my body just thinks I'm on an extended between-tours break and it expects that one day I'll leap back up on to a stage and launch into song. Well... perhaps I will. There's always the Artisan reunion tour...
But the whole point of coming off the road was that I was supposed to be able to set aside more time for writing. Having completed 50,000 words in November, pacing myself with NaNoWriMo even though I wasn't strictly speaking sticking to the rules because I was working on a piece already begun, I realise that I'm a burst writer. I'm most effective when I can devote a week or a month to nothing but hammering at the keyboard.
Problem is, the agency day job requires continuous attention, so I can't devote uninterrupted periods of time to writing. I need to retrain myself to working for four hours a day on the writing and then switching to the agency.
As I'm writing this I notice the Google adwords on the side of the screen. Someone is advertising Pro Singing Lessons, a 'celebrity method' which 'guarantees a full octave increase'. Yeah right. I think I'd like to point my friend Hilary at it. She's already got three and a half octaves... with four and a half she'd be supersonic. Dammit, I've got two and a half octaves myself... and it's quite enough, thank you.
People keep asking me if I miss singing and I'm never sure what to say. The odd fact is that I don't really, even though I did it professionally for twenty years. I occasionally warble round the house... and at Christmas I was tempted (for the first time ever I should say) to very bad karaoke at the village New Years party... but mostly I sit here at the keyboard and I don't pine to be on the stage.
Of course, let's be honest, as a professional singer I spent more time travelling than singing and I spent more time doing the administrative backup than travelling and singing combined. And, of course, as a tour agent for other performers I'm now hardwired to my keyboard doing just that. Perhaps my body just thinks I'm on an extended between-tours break and it expects that one day I'll leap back up on to a stage and launch into song. Well... perhaps I will. There's always the Artisan reunion tour...
But the whole point of coming off the road was that I was supposed to be able to set aside more time for writing. Having completed 50,000 words in November, pacing myself with NaNoWriMo even though I wasn't strictly speaking sticking to the rules because I was working on a piece already begun, I realise that I'm a burst writer. I'm most effective when I can devote a week or a month to nothing but hammering at the keyboard.
Problem is, the agency day job requires continuous attention, so I can't devote uninterrupted periods of time to writing. I need to retrain myself to working for four hours a day on the writing and then switching to the agency.
