{"id":61,"date":"2009-01-05T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/2009\/01\/05\/new-years-resolutions-thread-a\/"},"modified":"2016-01-22T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:13:27","slug":"new-years-resolutions-thread-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/new-years-resolutions-thread-a\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/chatter\/chatter.nmbx?id=5821\"><\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequenza21.com\/index.php\/1015#comments\">New Years Resolutions<\/a> thread at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequenza21.com\/\">Sequenza 21<\/a> reminded me about making New Year\u2019s resolutions. There\u2019s so many needs tugging at me, but all I want to do is make musical plans. I want to remedy my lack of momentum of the past few months.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows &#8211; economic times are tough. They\u2019re tough here right now. Do I have to look for a good paying job? Go back to technical writing? I still have lots of music ideas, and I don\u2019t want to give up that kind of time. I have my parents to look after too, and that has taken a lot of my emotional energy away from composing. I\u2019m no super woman. I don\u2019t do well at trying to do it all.<\/p>\n<p>So these are the resolutions I\u2019d like to make, and I hope the coming year will let me keep them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Actually write music regularly, instead of getting distracted by others, by email, by self-promotion efforts, by housecleaning, by avoidance. My custom is to clear those other tasks first, but those tasks never seem to get done. Instead, I ought to write first each day, before the other tasks, or schedule specific blocks of time, although once I get involved in writing I don\u2019t want to stop to do those other things.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t neglect networking, just don&#8217;t do it instead of creating&#8211;write in my blog; write the newsletter I\u2019ve been avoiding; contact someone and follow up every week.<\/li>\n<li>Increase income&#8211;promote improv workshops to music teachers and recording services to chamber music presenters; arrange for commissions, maybe through Spindrift Commissioning Guild.<\/li>\n<li>Continue recording pieces for a CD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the would-be-nice stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make my studio a more pleasant place to be &#8212; clear out stuff and make the filing storage work.<\/li>\n<li>Get some of my neglected titles ready for publication, especially sets of parts for my larger pieces.<\/li>\n<li>Practice ear training &#8212; there are good tips about that on the Sequenza 21 blog. <a href=\"http:\/\/reloadsanear.com\/\">Andrea<\/a> mentions Transcribe! from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seventhstring.com\/\">SeventhString<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/netnewmusic.net\/wiki\/index.php\/David_Salvage\">David Salvage<\/a> mentions MacGamut.<\/li>\n<li>Write about music &#8212; reviews concerts how-tos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh dear, this sounds overly ambitious. Maybe my only resolution should be to focus on one thing at a time and gain the satisfaction of finishing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Years Resolutions thread at Sequenza 21 reminded me about making New Year\u2019s resolutions. There\u2019s so many needs tugging at me, but all I want to do is make musical plans. I want to remedy my lack of momentum of the past few months. Everyone knows &#8211; economic times are tough. They\u2019re tough here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[13,102],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composing","tag-composing","tag-resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}