life, music, and fic wittering
Jul. 8th, 2008 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hobgoblinnI finished a song today. Some of you may remember my friend K, who passed away in December. I've never been able to get that collection of stories together, as I couldn't get other people to contribute. I passed on what I had to the family, and it will do, I suppose. But I tend to write music about significant events like that, and I finally got the music for this in the shape I wanted it. No words, just piano, but I'm really pleased with it, and I hope wherever K is, she likes it. I'm wondering if I can do a voice post of the recording I made of it, if it would come through decently. I'll have to look into how to do voice posts.
Now I just am hoping I don't have to start another piece anytime soon. My fearless leader for the night mass, M, is off this month, which is lucky, as the lung biopsy she had last week did indeed find more melanoma, and they ended up taking a good bit of the bottom lobe. They think they got it all, but still. This is the 3rd time she's dodged this bullet. The first was a patch of skin on the back of her ankle she accidentally noticed while shaving. A bit over a year later, they found it in her lymph nodes and took out all of the lymph nodes in her left leg. And now, a little over 2 years later, this shadow on her lung. I realize she's extraordinarily lucky to keep catching it, and each time so far she's bounced back after the course of treatments. But stage 4 melanoma is pretty tenacious. Those who offer prayers or good wishes to the universe at large, remember M.
And I am wrestling with my Summer of Giles tale in earnest now. Needs to lose the Giles POV stuff entirely, and stick to Willow, and Ethan when he makes an appearance. I'm thinking, though, that there's about 2000 words of a scene I'm now going to lose between Buffy and Giles that might make a good backup for Summer of Giles if I can't get the novel completed and edited in the next couple of weeks now that I'm doing a major revamp of the material. Besides, a novel is really too much to ask people to read for something like this. I may start posting the novel proper earlier on ff.net and just provide a link when saying this is a deleted scene to this longer thing. Haven't decided yet.
Now I just am hoping I don't have to start another piece anytime soon. My fearless leader for the night mass, M, is off this month, which is lucky, as the lung biopsy she had last week did indeed find more melanoma, and they ended up taking a good bit of the bottom lobe. They think they got it all, but still. This is the 3rd time she's dodged this bullet. The first was a patch of skin on the back of her ankle she accidentally noticed while shaving. A bit over a year later, they found it in her lymph nodes and took out all of the lymph nodes in her left leg. And now, a little over 2 years later, this shadow on her lung. I realize she's extraordinarily lucky to keep catching it, and each time so far she's bounced back after the course of treatments. But stage 4 melanoma is pretty tenacious. Those who offer prayers or good wishes to the universe at large, remember M.
And I am wrestling with my Summer of Giles tale in earnest now. Needs to lose the Giles POV stuff entirely, and stick to Willow, and Ethan when he makes an appearance. I'm thinking, though, that there's about 2000 words of a scene I'm now going to lose between Buffy and Giles that might make a good backup for Summer of Giles if I can't get the novel completed and edited in the next couple of weeks now that I'm doing a major revamp of the material. Besides, a novel is really too much to ask people to read for something like this. I may start posting the novel proper earlier on ff.net and just provide a link when saying this is a deleted scene to this longer thing. Haven't decided yet.
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Date: 2008-07-09 12:31 am (UTC)And hurrah for your song!
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Date: 2008-07-09 12:52 am (UTC)