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Done yesterday:

So now the question is, "Where to go from here." Now, I'm lucky in that I have access to good computers and friends with loads of knowledge about things like recording and engineering and mastering and stuff like that.

And the fact is, if you consider that I haven't released a new album in 12? 13? years (OMG), well. There's some material out there, and you might not even need all 5 of the new songs (or the unruly 6th one, which is in the poetry refrigerator at the moment).

I'm looking at how other artists promote themselves on Patreon. In particular, I'm impressed by South African Nate Maingard, whose goals are tightly organised, whose page is nice and slick without being super commercial. Now, obviously the guy is a hipster and much younger than I am, but I like the structure he's created. If you take a look at the goals and levels of patronage along the righthand side of the page, you'll see that not only does he offer a lot, but people are taking him up on it. Some items are limited, and you can see exactly how many patrons he has at that level by checking out the information there. He also writes for hire, which is something I've considered as well. Sonnets For Hire! ;) Also obviously, this guy travels and I don't, really; that's not a possibility for me right now for a lot of reasons. But I wonder: How possible would it be for me to move in this direction, positively and probably kind of slowly?

What do you guys think? Am I grasping at straws?

ETA: This is not pay to play. You can get anything on BandCamp for free. Not so sure I'll take the same tack with Patreon, but possibly take a leaf from my South African (not a) pal's book and release some teaser tracks, because otherwise how will people know what I sound like?
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I've never done the whole NaNoWriMo thing. While I understand that the communities behind this movement are pretty good, I always felt like every month should be writing month. Of course, encouragement is good and communities are good, and I love all the different writing things that go on in Second Life during November. I know I don't write as much as I should, though this past month -- indeed, the whole period since LonCon -- has been full of songwriting.

So, with that said, I think I can do my own little writing challenge for November. I will write at least one song a week for the duration of the month. Now, since it's unlikely I'll finish a song in the next hour, we could count anything more I get done on this fragment, or this one as the song for the first week, since there are only two days in that week and it's going to be over an hour from now, at least in London. Both these songs have been set to music and partially scored, so it might be cheating a little bit. I guess the one about children was actually started this week as opposed to the other one, which was started sometime last week, so maybe we'll only count that one.

Anyway.

9 November
16 November
23 November
30 November

Those will be the due dates for the songs, since I tend to tell my diary to start my week on Monday.

Now... for those of you who are interested in such things, what sorts of subjects would you like me to write about? Inspiration is beautiful and comes from all over the world. It never hurts to borrow someone else's. ;)
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Ultramarine

Lyrics below the cut tag.

Ultramarine )

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