The end of another pandemic week approaches, as does a fun milestone for me. So there's this kinda silly concept that originated in the 1950s of "golden" birthday, which is the year you turn the number of your birthdate. Like if your birthday is on the tenth of the month, your golen birthday is the your tenth. My birthday is on the 30th, so my ( Read more... )

So last night, I did indeed submit the final bit of the musical script to all and sundry, which marks THE END of my contribution for theatre camp, though I will still of course be answering the emails of any students with questions about shooting their solo bits or who need cheerleading ( Read more... )

I am so glad that I decided to have the brilliant idea to offer to compose one of the remaining songs for our theatre camp musical this morning, when Mr. 42 was home. Because as nifty as my ideas seem in my head, and as willing as I am to steal from existing songs, I am absolute crap at transcribing. Fortunately, with only a bit of GAAAH from me ( Read more... )

I'm so grateful this ended up not being a bonkers week at work, because a bonkers week at work plus ALL THE PROCHOIR RECORDINGS, plus technical issues with this week's hymn file for my church gig, plus having 2 days to write the first huge scene of the theatre camp musical, plus two 2-hour camp meetings, plus 1 day to integrate suggested edits into ( Read more... )

Bon soir, mes amis ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago, in response to one of my Comic-Con reports about an amazing YA fantasy writer's panel, gelsey mentioned that she particularly loved one of the panelists, Maggie Stiefvater, and recommended her novel "The Scorpio Races" as a good place to start. I added it to my wish list and received it for my birthday. It took me a little bit to ( Read more... )

Well, the news has been... batshit. I know y'all have seen it and are being affected by it. I myself did little besides fret over the weekend. Well, apart from joining sharebears and solarwind with Mr. 42 for a virtual movie night to watch Knives Out, which was the most fabulous dynamite-ensemble-cast murder mystery I've seen since Gosford Park, perhaps even better ( Read more... )

So I was supposed to have the draft of the first song for our Zoom musical for theatre camp done on Friday. As of Friday, I had two lines. As of Saturday, I had three lines, and I wasn't sold on the third line. I finally got the lead-in and the first verses posted to the share on Sunday. I'd feel worse about this, but it is now done, I like it, and ( Read more... )

So I seem to have volunteered to help write a musical. A 30-minute Zoom musical for kids ages 12~18 for a church theatre camp. I pitched an idea, came up with a concept and characters, and started writing the first scene up to the first song. This week, I'll write the first song (words only!) and integrate comments. No idea what will come of this, ( Read more... )

Happy Monday to all who observe!

It wasn't a particularly restful weekend, but there were some pleasant things. On Friday, a book I ordered arrived, and I ended up getting sucked into it and finishing it in a couple of days. It was a gripping, brutal read (necessitated by the subject matter), but it was brilliantly conceived and written.

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