I participated in FAWM again this year. FAWM is a song-writing challenge in February. Looking at cat surgery bills and other challenges to the budget, I sat down afterward and listened to the demos I'd made to see what I wouldn't be embarrassed to put up on bandcamp. I'd meant to do that sooner, but managed the Thursday before Bandcamp Friday, when Bandcamp passes on what is normally their share of any payment to the artists. It helped to have a deadline, I think.
In past years, my answer to the question "what's good enough as is or with only very minor edits" was only one or two songs, but although having a bunch of time to rehearse and a proper studio setup with a sound engineer with more skill at that than I have would have led to better recordings, to my surprise, this year there were a number of songs that sounded pretty good. Eleven songs, in fact.
I guess I leveled up while I wasn't looking!
I ended up staying up all night and putting together two short albums, one mostly of filk music and one of 4 protest songs. They're here if anyone wants to take a look (or more properly, I suppose, have a listen): https://wylddandelyon.bandcamp.com/ The first two are the albums, the other things on the page are singles.
I got to bed about 10 am that Friday, so I didn't go totally without sleep! And then, of course, I was useless for several days after, par for the course with the stupid long covid.
Then this weekend, while attending a filk event on zoom, I scheduled lyric posts and audio posts over on my Patreon. Patreon supporters will get to listen to some of the stuff that's not ready for Bandcamp, even with the liner notes warning that I'm sharing the songs almost in the moment of their initial creation.
Now I've got to get seeds into pots to hopefully have tomato and pepper and herb plants that I don't have to buy for my garden, and pay the last few bills for this month. I also want to keep working on the music. And maybe try starting to write fiction again, though the long-covid-brain might still not be up to holding a whole fictional world and characters and plot and all that yet.
Other stuff on my mind is the state of the world (horrifying and stressful); wanting to get peas and spinach seeds in the ground soon, since they're cold-weather crops; still mourning my little brother; and hoping the pathology for the mass they removed from my oldest kitty's neck isn't something horrible.
I'm not participating in any formal creative challenges right now, as the stuff I want to get done is challenging enough and there's no challenges I'm aware of that are happening at the moment that would serve to support that stuff rather than distract from it. (That's one of the things I love about FAWM--it supports stuff I want to be doing anyway, while making February social and fun instead of cold and lonely.)
That doesn't sound like a good ending to this post, but I'm sleepy and should go to bed! Figures.
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In past years, my answer to the question "what's good enough as is or with only very minor edits" was only one or two songs, but although having a bunch of time to rehearse and a proper studio setup with a sound engineer with more skill at that than I have would have led to better recordings, to my surprise, this year there were a number of songs that sounded pretty good. Eleven songs, in fact.
I guess I leveled up while I wasn't looking!
I ended up staying up all night and putting together two short albums, one mostly of filk music and one of 4 protest songs. They're here if anyone wants to take a look (or more properly, I suppose, have a listen): https://wylddandelyon.bandcamp.com/ The first two are the albums, the other things on the page are singles.
I got to bed about 10 am that Friday, so I didn't go totally without sleep! And then, of course, I was useless for several days after, par for the course with the stupid long covid.
Then this weekend, while attending a filk event on zoom, I scheduled lyric posts and audio posts over on my Patreon. Patreon supporters will get to listen to some of the stuff that's not ready for Bandcamp, even with the liner notes warning that I'm sharing the songs almost in the moment of their initial creation.
Now I've got to get seeds into pots to hopefully have tomato and pepper and herb plants that I don't have to buy for my garden, and pay the last few bills for this month. I also want to keep working on the music. And maybe try starting to write fiction again, though the long-covid-brain might still not be up to holding a whole fictional world and characters and plot and all that yet.
Other stuff on my mind is the state of the world (horrifying and stressful); wanting to get peas and spinach seeds in the ground soon, since they're cold-weather crops; still mourning my little brother; and hoping the pathology for the mass they removed from my oldest kitty's neck isn't something horrible.
I'm not participating in any formal creative challenges right now, as the stuff I want to get done is challenging enough and there's no challenges I'm aware of that are happening at the moment that would serve to support that stuff rather than distract from it. (That's one of the things I love about FAWM--it supports stuff I want to be doing anyway, while making February social and fun instead of cold and lonely.)
That doesn't sound like a good ending to this post, but I'm sleepy and should go to bed! Figures.