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Day Two Hundred Ten (Year Two)

I got up somewhat early today.  It gave me a chance to do a little playing before I had to go to work.  The chief result of this playing was my discovering that I actually still liked the work I had gotten done last night.  That happens with me a lot, where I'll find an idea I like one moment, and then later discover that I don't like it half as much as I thought I did.  It's actually a chief reason why my lyrics are in a perpetual state of "undone."

The cool thing about this morning is that it represents progress from the last time I worked on songs for this project.  Last time, I woke up the next day and hated nearly everything I had been working on the day before. 

No, I think this time I've got myself a solid group of three or so ideas, with maybe a holdover from the previous writing session that still hasn't quite sorted itself out yet.  I know that leaves quite a bit of work still to be done, but in all fairness, I haven't had this much progress on anything for a solo project in a long, long time, so as long as it's working, I'll continue to take it for what it is: progress.  And I've still got a week and a half to go.  I admitted to myself a while back that I wasn't thinking everything would be recorded this month, and in a way, that has freed me up to make sure the musical ideas aren't just thrown together for the sake of having something.  I still need to work faster and find the good at a quicker pace if I'm going to get this done, but I want to have a record that sounds unique and creative at the same time, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

It's good.  It's working.  I didn't get as much done today as I could have, but tomorrow night should be a productive one for this, so that's exciting for me.

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