Wow, where the heck did December go? One second I’m flying off to Iowa, the next it’s almost 2012! At the end of NaNoWriMo I declared December “getting my shit together” month, but I seem to have only partially succeeded. I blame part of it on day job discombobulation: I was switched from a Monday [...]
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In honor of NaNoWriMo, here’s a new Garage Band theme song I concocted for a nonexistent science fiction series that probably involves nanotechnology, depending on your imagination. I’m calling it “Year of the Machine Plague.” Enjoy, and happy noveling! Related Posts:Back to the ScheduleHoliday Break (with Unseasonal Music)!FemtoWriMoNaNoWriMo 2011Taking a Break
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I had a crappy week at work, and I’ve been discombobulated with the whole “between novels” thing. This all combined to put me into a weird, punchy, bad mood lately. So last week I redirected my aimlessness at Garage Band to piece together a new “theme song for a TV show that doesn’t exist” — [...]
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At the beginning of the year I wrote this post about finishing up ongoing projects so I could get new ones started. Well, I definitely succeeded at clearing the decks — draft two of Subnetworks is complete, my old albums are all remixed, and the website is up and running. Unfortunately I haven’t quite gotten [...]
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As a reward for finishing my novel, I allowed myself to work exclusively on my third album of GarageBand tunes before even thinking about starting on the second draft of the book. I finished Multicasting over the weekend, and it’s easily the most satisfying of the three albums for me, as I’m getting more and [...]
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In honor of the World Cup, I recently got GarageBand’s “World Music” expansion, and I love it. To drown out the vuvuzelas for today’s Brazil-Chile matchup, I thought I’d post a few recent efforts. These are sounding a bit less like TV theme songs than usual…I think I’m getting better at this! But mostly just [...]
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Knowing the Futurismic submissions would be coming in this week, I spent a good chunk of the weekend finishing off a couple of GarageBand tunes, since I expect music will go on the backburner once I start editing again this week, not to mention entering the home stretch on the novel. (Holy smokes, four chapters [...]
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It’s good to have multiple projects going; when one project stalls, you can shift to another. I hit a plot snag in the novel last week and had to rework my outline, which kind of killed my momentum. I cleared my head by working on some new tunes, which I hereby inflict upon you. “Lockstep” [...]
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Like many folks these days, I’ve been trying to be frugal and over the past few months have been denying myself the usual, occasional splurge purchase – books, DVDs, and games being the most common offenders. But I couldn’t hold out forever, and a couple of weekends ago, on another errand entirely, I broke down [...]
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