Progress: 92 pages & singing

Phew. Finished a chapter this week.  Chapter five is officially done for this draft.  WhoHOO!  

Thoughts this week:  I doubt I can keep this pace up, but hey, why not hope?  I've definitely been praying that I'd be able to work a little faster now.

In general, I am spending more hours at my desk right now, preparing for the Charlotte Huck Festival in Redlands, California and for the church women's conference.  So my back is stiffer than usual.  There's a lot of sitting.

But here's something fun:  I've signed up for a songwriting class at Old Town School of Folk Music.  When I took a playwriting class about a year and a half ago it was one of the best things I could've done for my writing. Playwriting is not taught the same way "creative writing" is taught, so the exercises were new to me and my audience had changed: I was writing for a stage with an audience sitting in front of it.  Anyway, it was great! I felt that rush of excitement for writing again. I'm hoping for something similar with the songwriting class.  But I must admit this:  I am scared witless about singing in front of people. But I will have to do it.  How can you share a song if there's no singing?

[Photo: I considered another photo of the stack, but that's getting boring -- at least until the stack looks like something.  So here's an unfinished portrait that hangs in my office.  It was painted by my great, great aunt, Margaret Richardson.  I like her.  She knows things and knows she knows things and likes books.]