L2: CSSOM Continued
STATUS SO FAR:
Day 1: For a variety of reasons, I found myself overflowing with free time on Sunday night. Managed to flush out more of Undefined song. I came up with a better bridge than what I had before and I modified the structure of the second half of the chorus. When working with lyrics, it is astounding how long it can take to work through simple lyrical issues. Trying to find not only the right words but the right words that also rhyme and fit the syllabic melody can be very difficult. I will keep on trucking. Creative Time: 120mins, late at night
Day 2: Continued onward with Undefined. So close but still need to flush out Second verse lyrics. Came up with a good line finally for the end of the first set of verses. I must have tried a hundred different ones.
Creative Time: 45mins during lunch; 20mins, after work
Day 3: Finally browsed around and worked through some other song issues but I still don't feel like I can move forward until I tie up the loose ends in the Undefined song. Doing that tomorrow and hopefully also finally building up the beginning of the Rebel song.
Creative Time: 20mins, before work; 45mins during lunch; 20mins, after work
Day 4: Finally had a great line for the beginning of the second set of verses in Undefined! I love this one even more than the last one and it has me wondering if I should attempt to match this more complicated rhyme scheme:
“I'm unsteady
no more, time to run out my door to just stun, shout and floor everyone with who I am insiiiiide!!!
I am ready!”
Out of context, and without knowing the melody that might not have the power that I think is there and will be visible when it’s performed.
Creative Time: 20mins, before work; 45mins during lunch; 20mins, on train
Day 5: Managed to finally wrap up the big remaining parts of the Undefined song in the morning. That was easily the hardest of the new songs to write. Perhaps harder than the finale song. I was able to focus on the Rebel song during lunch. I basically need to finish a song per day between the rebel song today, the amendment song tomorrow, and then the out in your world remix by Saturday as well as all remaining song tidbits here and there and integrating the new lyrics into the script, which takes a decent amount of time. This is going to be a challenge!
Creative Time: 20mins, before train; 20mins, before work; 45mins during lunch; 20mins, after work;
Day 6: Got to a great point, I'm working out kinks in the rebel song, after these are wrapped up the biggest changes will be those for the finale song(s). The rebel song is sounding good and I sang Undefined and Instant outloud and proud, and they sounded pretty good. I hadn't really been singing them or any of the songs outside my head for a while since I tend to be working during lunch breaks and train rides. But I'm glad I did. I'm glad I pushed hard on the intense rhyme schemes for those songs. A lot more upfront work but it paid off when I finally heard everything out loud and it rolled together very smoothly. It will certainly be even more worth it when its produced.
Creative Time: 20mins before train; 20mins, before work; 60mins during lunch; 20mins, after work on train; 120mins, late at night
Day 7: I found some time to work while I was running errands. I stopped at a Barnes and Noble to find a nice uncrowded café, so I had some tea and wrote. I was running a bunch of errands so I thought a short break was warranted. I'm hoping to grab another bit of work time during the kids naps and then much more tonight! Need to finish the finale work and then need to cruise through the clean-up work. I'm hoping to stay up no matter how long it takes.
Creative Time: 30mins, in morning; 75mins, during naps; 60mins in the evening
CONCEPT UPDATES/CHANGES: I had a great time pushing through on this one. While I was doing great on Saturday night, which was Day 7, I feel like there is more to be done, but not too much. I think I need to make this a priority and keep working on it through next week. Read the next post for more on how I intend to do that because I’m not 100% sure as I write this.
PICTURES/NOTES: Zilch.
THIS WEEK RUNNING TIME: 14.42 hours, (Fun fact: that’s about 8.6% of the hours in a week, and 12.7% of the awake hours.)
TOTAL RUNNING (SO FAR): 36.42 hours