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Friday Update
Apr. 10th, 2020 10:48 amIt's funny how deciding to take a WP blog and daily word hiatus has made me more talkative here at DW, heh.
Seriously, though...for a long while I'd been thinking that maybe I was stretching myself too thin and trying to hard to do too much, and it had started to show a good few months ago. I had the determination, I just didn't have any fuel in the car, so to speak. I've finally decided to step back and take stock, figure out what my next steps will be.
I'm feeling my way around new things right now. I've been going on about how I want to focus more on art and music. I've been talking with an art field friend about my options and doing some research into it, and brushing the dust off my art supplies again. I might need to look into a newer Wacom (the one I have dates to 2011!!), but that's a bit down the road; I'd like to shake the rust off and get better first. I have tons of pens, pencils and art notebooks that are screaming to be used again.
As for the music, I did what I've been wanting to do for ages: I downloaded the free version of ProTools, with the plan of getting my feet wet with some Drunken Owl demos. It'll be a steep learning curve, that's for sure. I understand the theories and ideas behind multitrack recording, but I don't have much hands-on, so I'll have to jump into the deep end. I mean -- if I can learn the bassacwards systems of banking, I'm pretty sure I can pick this up! Heh.
Does the lack of writing worry me? I don't think so. I've been doing it almost daily for decades now, so I don't think I'll lose the craft. This is more about resting that part of my brain for a bit and get better at other things on my bucket list.
Hope everyone has a good (and safe) weekend!
Seriously, though...for a long while I'd been thinking that maybe I was stretching myself too thin and trying to hard to do too much, and it had started to show a good few months ago. I had the determination, I just didn't have any fuel in the car, so to speak. I've finally decided to step back and take stock, figure out what my next steps will be.
I'm feeling my way around new things right now. I've been going on about how I want to focus more on art and music. I've been talking with an art field friend about my options and doing some research into it, and brushing the dust off my art supplies again. I might need to look into a newer Wacom (the one I have dates to 2011!!), but that's a bit down the road; I'd like to shake the rust off and get better first. I have tons of pens, pencils and art notebooks that are screaming to be used again.
As for the music, I did what I've been wanting to do for ages: I downloaded the free version of ProTools, with the plan of getting my feet wet with some Drunken Owl demos. It'll be a steep learning curve, that's for sure. I understand the theories and ideas behind multitrack recording, but I don't have much hands-on, so I'll have to jump into the deep end. I mean -- if I can learn the bassacwards systems of banking, I'm pretty sure I can pick this up! Heh.
Does the lack of writing worry me? I don't think so. I've been doing it almost daily for decades now, so I don't think I'll lose the craft. This is more about resting that part of my brain for a bit and get better at other things on my bucket list.
Hope everyone has a good (and safe) weekend!
