IKEA, singing, writing
Jan. 19th, 2011 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lyornOn Sunday, Snow was at my place to assemble the IKEA drawer and eat potato stew. (Snow loves assembling stuff, while I feel that it's a hassle.)
Turned out that one screw was missing from the package, and two boards were slightly damaged. So I drove over to IKEA yesterday noon to get the missing screw, exchange the damaged boards and eat hot dogs. Only, they gave the the wrong board, and I was too unobservant to notice. Grr. So I went to IKEA again today. They had already noticed the mistake and put the correct part aside for me, so that was fast. I still had two hot dogs and a muffin. It was my lunch break after all.
Singing
Yesterday evening Ceridwen, Gwydion and I had band practise again, which we had been neglecting because of the snow. We worked on some of our classics, and I tried out some of the new techniques I had learned at the JazzVocalSüd this year. They worked fine -- I got out a good amount of sound, and didn't tire my voice the way I usually do in middle and low notes. I am worried, however, about not getting in enough variation, but that will likely come when I find the basics easier to handle. Generally we need to polish up our harmony singing again -- it's our major strength, so we tend to rely on it to work with no effort at all.
Also, I got a very nice Bb5, and Ceridwen topped that with a C6. Yeah, so much for the need to tone down the soprano parts for our ensemble. There has to be a technical problem somewhere if the sopranos can't gracefully sing a simply G5. (Yepp. Still miffed. Although, as a second soprano, I don't even have to be.)
If all goes well we'll go to a CVT not-quite-intro class in September. That will be fun!
On killing the bearer of crucial intelligence
I have given a character, who is minor in the story cycle, but one of the main protagonists in one story, a critical piece of information which must not reach its recipient. The character won't walk away, so I think I have to kill him. It's easy, as he and the other main protagonist are in a house-to-house battle (fighting on different sides). But I have only those two as POV characters, and I cannot find a way to kill him that would not read as overdramatic, simplistic and trite.
So -- let him live and not give him the info? (There is no chance that the info will get lost or misunderstood *after* being given to the recipient.)
Kill him on screen? Off screen? Use a third viewpoint character who is not aware of the relevance of the event, while the reader is?
Dunno...
Turned out that one screw was missing from the package, and two boards were slightly damaged. So I drove over to IKEA yesterday noon to get the missing screw, exchange the damaged boards and eat hot dogs. Only, they gave the the wrong board, and I was too unobservant to notice. Grr. So I went to IKEA again today. They had already noticed the mistake and put the correct part aside for me, so that was fast. I still had two hot dogs and a muffin. It was my lunch break after all.
Singing
Yesterday evening Ceridwen, Gwydion and I had band practise again, which we had been neglecting because of the snow. We worked on some of our classics, and I tried out some of the new techniques I had learned at the JazzVocalSüd this year. They worked fine -- I got out a good amount of sound, and didn't tire my voice the way I usually do in middle and low notes. I am worried, however, about not getting in enough variation, but that will likely come when I find the basics easier to handle. Generally we need to polish up our harmony singing again -- it's our major strength, so we tend to rely on it to work with no effort at all.
Also, I got a very nice Bb5, and Ceridwen topped that with a C6. Yeah, so much for the need to tone down the soprano parts for our ensemble. There has to be a technical problem somewhere if the sopranos can't gracefully sing a simply G5. (Yepp. Still miffed. Although, as a second soprano, I don't even have to be.)
If all goes well we'll go to a CVT not-quite-intro class in September. That will be fun!
On killing the bearer of crucial intelligence
I have given a character, who is minor in the story cycle, but one of the main protagonists in one story, a critical piece of information which must not reach its recipient. The character won't walk away, so I think I have to kill him. It's easy, as he and the other main protagonist are in a house-to-house battle (fighting on different sides). But I have only those two as POV characters, and I cannot find a way to kill him that would not read as overdramatic, simplistic and trite.
So -- let him live and not give him the info? (There is no chance that the info will get lost or misunderstood *after* being given to the recipient.)
Kill him on screen? Off screen? Use a third viewpoint character who is not aware of the relevance of the event, while the reader is?
Dunno...